Efficiency - TFTC

Issue #1274: Erlay support signaling has been merged into Bitcoin Core

It's been a little over three years and exactly 696 issues since we last talked about Erlay in this rag. Back in September of 2019 we wrote about Pieter Wuille

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Issue #1184: The momentum is rising

Expect more of this.

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Issue #1130: The Lightning Network is creating efficiency for traders

It will be fun to watch this area of the market develop in the coming years.

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Issue #1102: Minimint gets support from Blockstream

As with everything that involves Bitcoin, this product comes with tradeoffs.

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Issue #925: The Energy FUD is Back

Bitcoin is good for the environment in more ways than one. Very few people understand this at the moment.

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Issue #834: GLV Endomorphism, efficiency, and patents

This is one of those under-appreciated improvements to Bitcoin that gets your Uncle Marty all hot and bothered.

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Issue #717: GAM: Bringing Hash Power to North America

If executed correctly, this will be a huge benefit for everyone involved.

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Issue #578: Erlay may be on the way

Erlay would be a huge level up for Bitcoin's P2P layer as it would help reduce bandwidth requirements by 40% (!!), increase network connectivity, and increase privacy.

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Issue #493: Erlay, a step towards an ideal?

As you can see, Erlay could severely reduce the amount of bandwidth needed to connect to other nodes when compared to the current transaction relay method. Currently, if you are connected to 32 nodes it would take 17.3GB of bandwidth per month to relay transactions via your node.

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Issue #480: Bitcoin creates efficiencies everywhere

Until the emergence of Bitcoin, we humans were forced to choose goods that exist in meat space to store our wealth over time. Over thousands of years, a few hard commodities and assets have attained dominance in our minds as quality stores of value.

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Issue #383: It's dusty in here

Whenever Dhruv Bansal from Unchained Capital publishes something, I immediately stop what I'm doing and read that shit. Yesterday afternoon was no different. Dhruv released the third part [https://blog.unchained-capital.com/bitcoin-data-science-pt-3-dust-thermodynamics-615dd51f49] of an ongoing series [https://blog.unchained-capital.com/@shrubvandal] diving into

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Issue #358: Miners, energy buyers of last resort

Bitcoin is going to be a boon for energy efficiency.I stumbled across this thread [https://twitter.com/libovness/status/1060374716920291330] on Twitter earlier this morning and thought it would be a good one to share with you freaks on this beautiful Friday since

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Issue #319: PoW is extremely efficient

The fact Bitcoin has created a beautiful incentive system to make sure we humans are as efficient as possible when it comes to the consumption of energy is lost on most people, especially those championing PoS; a materially less secure and economically unfair system that favors incumbents.

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Issue #315: Bitcoin's Yin & Yang and Cliffhangers

The price-performance ratio is a metric that is typically used to measure the ratio of the price of a product to its performance (performance metrics differ from product to product) and is used to illustrate the difference between old and new products.

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