[bitcoin-dev] Storing the Merkle Tree in a compact way

2021-09-11 Thread shymaa arafat via bitcoin-dev
Allow me to introduce this simple idea that could be useful ... -The Intuition was some discussion on Utreexo project about storage saving and some traversing issues in handling the UTXOS Merkle Tree/ forest; that is N internal nodes need to be stored along with 2N pointers (left), + maybe 1

Re: [bitcoin-dev] Braidpool: Proposal for a decentralised mining pool

2021-09-11 Thread Filippo Merli via bitcoin-dev
>From my understanding of the posted proposal, a share to get rewarded must "prove" to be created before the rewarded share. (between L and R) If GOOD3 refers to BAD2 the only thing that I can prove is that BAD2 has been mined before GOOD2. So if BAD3 is a valid block (I call it R like in the