Block Building with Clara and Murch - Episode 18

Postdoc Researcher Clara joins Murch to discuss their block building research. They cover their proposal , which outlines suggested improvements to the current Bitcoin Core block building algorithm using candidate sets. Murch and Clara discuss: - Building a valid block 101 (5:45) - The current getblocktemplate algorithm (11:35) - Child pays for parent (13:40) - Is there something better? (15:45) - How easy would it be to guess the next block? (27:25) - Do we have a better idea than initially mining an empty block? (29:25) - Empty blocks and SegWit (33:45) - How to improve on the candidate set algorithm e.g., linear programming (35:00) - Why should Bitcoin Core have better block building? (37:00) - How to compare different block building techniques (38:55) Thanks to Caralie for the sound engineering.

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Block Building with Clara and Murch - Episode 18 is an episode from The Chaincode Podcast by Chaincode Labs.

This episode is 00:48:47 long.

This episode was published on Feb 1, 2022.

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