Anonobread

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   by Anonobread 11y ago

   > Hasn't signature verification speed been improved significantly since 2014 Pieter Wuille's work in libsecp256k1 promises to improve verification speeds on 64-bit CPUs by as much as 700%, and it's set to be deployed on th
2. 32.▲
   by Anonobread 11y ago

   > Is it an issue? Conundrum? Regardless, it's unsolvable, and I do empathize with the people who complain or offer their own (non)solutions. > If they were just GPU cluster datacenters, despite their scale, they still would not c
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   by Anonobread 11y ago

   No matter what crazy optimized-for-decentralization algorithm you come up with to mine cryptocurrency, large investors are going to buy a ton of it and put it in datacenters in China. Newbies and people invested in alternative attempts at P
4. 34.▲
   by Anonobread 11y ago

   Block size isn't a free parameter. The team behind btcd, a Bitcoin full node written in Go, made the following observations about block size [1]: 1. a 32 MB block, when filled with simple P2PKH transactions, can hold approximately 167,