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Title: [2017-02-05] New Bitcoin Caching Features Could Improve Block Verification Post by: Gembul on February 06, 2017, 02:39:30 AM News Bitcoin - New Bitcoin Caching Features Could Improve Block Verification
A new way of verifying blocks on the Bitcoin blockchain could make the digital currency more efficient. In the original version of Bitcoin, when nodes received a block of transactions, they would validate each transaction set. Most likely, these transactions were already validated before, when they were relayed across the network. However, this previous validation of the transaction was not used in block validation, causing an inefficiency in Bitcoin that limited the speed of block propagation. There have been many developer attempts to make this more efficient, including the forthcoming ‘Cuckoo Cache’. READ MORE >>> https://news.bitcoin.com/new-bitcoin-cachin-features-could-improve-block-verification/ (https://news.bitcoin.com/new-bitcoin-cachin-features-could-improve-block-verification/) |