Scaling Bitcoin With The Erlay Protocol

Scaling Bitcoin With The Erlay Protocol

In this episode of “The Van Wirdum Sjorsnado,” the hosts discussed the Erlay protocol, scaling Bitcoin and Minisketch.Watch This Episode On YouTubeListen To This Episode:AppleSpotifyGoogleLibsynOvercastIn this episode of “The Van Wirdum Sjorsnado,” hosts Aaron van Wirdum and Sjors Provoost discussed the Erlay protocol. Erlay is a proposal to reduce the bandwidth required to run a Bitcoin node, which has been proposed and developed by University of British Columbia researchers Gleb Naumenko, Alexandra Fedorova and Ivan Beschastnikh; Blockstream engineer Pieter Wuille; and independent....


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