Gavin Andresen - 2011-11-27 18:38:19

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As Mike said, help on "initial headers-only download" would be much appreciated.

Work-in-progress is here:  https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/tree/blockheaders

... and my notes on issues that have to be worked out are here:  https://gist.github.com/1059233

As for scalability in general:  it looks to me like CPU time to validate transactions will be the bottleneck before bandwidth or disk space, so I don't see a strong reason to switching to a 'ledger' or 'balance sheet' method. Effective optimization/scalability is all about identifying and eliminating bottlenecks.

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