Golomb-Rice Coding: Boosting Bitcoin’s Data Efficiency 🚀
A lossless compression method optimizing data with geometric distributions for blockchain efficiency.🛡️🔍
Introduction
In the quest to enhance scalability and efficiency, Bitcoin has embraced innovative data compression techniques. Golomb-Rice coding is one such method, playing a pivotal role in optimizing data storage and transmission within the network. This lossless compression algorithm is particularly effective for datasets that follow a geometric distribution — a common characteristic in blockchain data structures.
This article delves into the technicalities of Golomb-Rice coding, its implementation in Bitcoin through Golomb-Rice Coded Sets (GCS), and how it significantly improves the performance of light clients by enabling efficient and private blockchain queries.
Understanding Golomb-Rice Coding 🔍
What is Golomb-Rice Coding?
Golomb-Rice coding is a form of entropy coding used for lossless data compression. It is especially efficient for compressing integers that follow a geometric distribution, where smaller values occur more frequently than larger ones.
