"The libcoin/bitcoind client downloads the entire block chain 3.5 times faster than the bitcoin/bitcoind client. This is less than 90 minutes on a modern laptop!"
Good lord Michael, I wish we had known about libcoin a month ago! -wendell grabhive.com | twitter.com/grabhive On Jul 17, 2013, at 4:31 PM, Michael Gronager wrote: > Hi Wendell, > > What Peter describes (a hash of the current set of UTXOs as part of the > coinbase) is already implemented in libcoin, on which you can easily build > both a bitcoind and any client. Libcoin is a library originally based on the > satoshi client, and as such it is compatible/replacable with "master". > > Have a look at github.com/libcoin/libcoin and look in the BlockChain.h/cpp > and the MerkleTrie classes then you can see how it works. > > What is missing from libcoin is a scheme to bootstrap the hash of UTXOs, > there is some stub code for a p2pool like mining scheme ensuring several UTXO > hashes every 10 minutes, but I will not have time to finalize it the first > few months - anyone are of course welcome to help out ;) > > Michael
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