SLP484 Robin Linus ZeroSync: Speeding up Bitcoin Initial Block Download (IBD)
Jun 05, 2023•45 min•Season 1Ep. 484
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Episode description
Robin Linus from the ZeroSync project joins me to talk about how ZKPs can be used to help people quickly get started using Bitcoin. We discuss:
- What ZKPs are and what they can be used for
- Speeding up IBD
- Contrasting ZeroSync with utreexo and assumeutxo
- UTXO set commitment
- Blockstream satellite
- What’s being verified?
- Different types of nodes
Links:
- Site: zerosync.org
- Twitter: @ZeroSync_
- Twitter: @robin_linus
Sponsors
- Swan Bitcoin
- CoinKite.com(code LIVERA)
- Mempool.space
Stephan Livera links:
- Follow me on Twitter @stephanlivera
- Subscribe to the podcast
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