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The other cool thing about verkle trees is that they were mostly figured out by a high schooler for a science fair (?) project. They're not actually that compl
by treyd 2y ago
The other cool thing about verkle trees is that they were mostly figured out by a high schooler for a science fair (?) project.
They're not actually that complicated in principle, just nobody thought of it before and that's pretty cool.
- ChadNauseam 2y agoWow, that is cool. I'm actually annoyed that vitalik didn't credit him in his article about them. I wonder how many people think that the v stands for vitalk
- a1369209993 2y ago> vitalik didn't credit him in his article You mean this article? https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2021/06/18/verkle.html https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2021/06/18/verkle.html > Verkle trees are still a new idea; they were first introduced by John Kuszmaul in this paper from 2018[link to [0]], 0: https://math.mit.edu/research/highschool/primes/materials/2018/Kuszmaul.pdf https://math.mit.edu/research/highschool/primes/materials/20...
- Zamiel_Snawley 2y agoI want to highlight the fact that the quote from Vitalik’s article is the first sentence of the second paragraph. Credit is prominently given, not buried in any way.
- ChadNauseam 2y agoOh, I wonder if he edited it, I googled it to find what the GP was talking about and saw this which claimed he didn't: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27557503 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27557503
- olddustytrail 2y agoFrom your link: vbuterin on June 19, 2021 | prev | next [–] Thanks! I actually wasn't aware of the intellectual history. I added a link to your paper at the start of my post.