Damus
charliesurf is rekt · 4d
so why and when it went so wrong? none of that has had any real world impact since (check notes) forever... the only thing that bitcoin has done in 14 years is gone up in price and create products for...
utxo the webmaster πŸ§‘β€πŸ’» profile picture
I don't think so, it's a pretty dumb idea to think everyone will store all transactions forever in history on their home computers. We need a way to compress transactions down a lot, with new layers for less important transactions
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kidwarp · 4d
Not everyone was supposed to run a node… But at some point everyone thought it was a good idea…
novo · 4d
floresta+Utreexo
Nuh · 4d
Sidechains inherently checkpoint their history (discard it) whenever a withdrawal to the mainchain occur, otherwise they would be at risk of diluting the peg and the whole thing goes belly up. So they must make the withdrawal slow enough to be safe, once safe no point of keeping any old blocks reall...