I figured I’d test my new 2.5 Gb router…

So I’m syncing the bitcoin blockchain from

genesis from one machine to another on 2.5Gb Ethernet adapters. Not quite the throughput I would have hoped for (peak like 800 Mib/s), but the good news is: bitcoin checks out. The blockchain is still valid, from day one to this moment.

Also, did you know you can verify bitcoin forwards and backwards? I discovered a little bug while going backwards: https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues/22596

Someone figured out why it did that and recently patched it!