Bram Cohen: Data Structures for Scaling Bitcoin

Bram Cohen (https://twitter.com/bramcohen), author of the BitTorrent protocol, will speak about data structures for scaling Bitcoin. Blockchain growth results in challenges for scaling nodes: Downloading the complete blockchain, running a lightweight node, and validating transactions in memory all become problematically expensive. Two approaches to lessening load will be presented: A transaction bitfield so transaction validation can be done with no disk access, and a very optimized general purp…