The Chaincode Podcast

Carl Dong and Modularizing the Bitcoin Consensus Engine - Episode 10

In part 2 of this sit down with Carl Dong, Murch and Jonas cover the delicate work of modularizing the Bitcoin consensus engine. In this conversation, we cover:   - Carl's De-globalize ChainstateManager PR (2:25)   - Asy...

2020-12-15
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In part 2 of this sit down with Carl Dong, Murch and Jonas cover the delicate work of modularizing the Bitcoin consensus engine.




In this conversation, we cover:


  - Carl's De-globalize ChainstateManager PR (2:25)


  - Async Block Processing PR


  - Deglobalize class of chainstate manager (g_chainman) (3:40)


  - AssumeUTXO


  - global variables and main (5:25)


  - scripted diff (9:35)


  - 0.8 upgrade consensus failure (11:25)


  - Jorge Timon's libconsensus project (13:10)


  - current libbitcoinconsensus only does script verification (13:25)


  - the case for multiple implementations (14:40)


  - ABI (15:10)




Thanks as always to Matthew Zipkin for the sound engineering.

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