Benefits of LTOR in block entropy encoding, or:

ISPs hate him! Learn how to make your block 75% Xthinner with this one weird trick!

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Block propagation data from Bitcoin Cash’s stress test

TL;DR: During the stress test, blocks propagated through the non-China mainnet at around 300–1000 kB/s. This is pretty slow, and would cause problems with orphan rates if block sizes were frequently larger than 8 MB unless we improve…

P2pool as prior art for nChain’s Turing Complete Transactions patent — or, how to patent all blockchain apps without anybody noticing

I recently became interested in a potential application of the Bitcoin ABC’s proposed…