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Podcast: Stephan Livera Podcast
Episode: SLP484 Robin Linus ZeroSync: Speeding up Bitcoin Initial Block Download (IBD)
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
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