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> Veriblock and Omni added about 10GB to the bitcoin blockchain in 32 million transactions that all bitcoin nodes have to download forever. Thankfully, these tr
by tromp 4y ago
> Veriblock and Omni added about 10GB to the bitcoin blockchain in 32 million transactions that all bitcoin nodes have to download forever. Thankfully, these transactions are at least prunable so there isn’t a memory cost given they aren’t part of bitcoin’s UTXO set.
If Bitcoin were using the Mimblewimble blockchain design, then each of these 32 million transactions would only leave 100 bytes of need-to-download data once their outputs are spent, adding only 3.2MB instead of 10GB...