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Podcasts: SLP484 Robin Linus ZeroSync: Speeding up Bitcoin Initial Block Download (IBD) 🔗 48 weeks ago

Stephan Livera Podcast

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

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