If you want to be able to have a serious discussion regarding the future of Bitcoin you need to, at the very least, understand libbitcoins expressed goals and their reasoning- Eric actually does a great job of breaking these things down in a rational way
Eric Voskuil joined Bitcoin engineers to discuss architectural and performance differences between libbitcoin and Bitcoin Core:
- libbitcoin’s history/latest updates
- libbitcoin architecture
- Initial block download (IBD) performance
- IBD workflow
- SwiftSync
- Q&A
Watch the 90 minute discussion:
https://brink.dev/blog/2025/06/17/eng-call-eric-voskuil-utxo-model/
Discussion
nostr:nprofile1qqsxzlc2s492eknxfxndjzu2xcwyeug62gxlqz6hdw7dwwygksparmgpzpmhxue69uhk2tnwdaejumr0dshszrnhwden5te0dehhxtnvdakz7ss3f8q this is what i was talking about that one time, what i thoight libbitcoin was doing that was most important in btc development
Nice, seems important. I'll give it a listen.
Here’s the docs if you want more insight! :) ttys
The goat!