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/
Yes!
That's a great topic, glad your picking up on the insane performance of libbitcoin.
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
This was awesome. Thanks for sharing!
libbitcoin discussion - eric voskuil - brink - june 17 2025
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https://cdn.satellite.earth/7c785a4e42b2c2174fcfb1adcd6bfca1e66c90c26e0236043c12d8de80df792a.mp4
