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SHOW HN2022
13points
8comments
#1,831of 2,570 in 2022
Top 72%of 2022 by points
How HN took it
QuietFewer than 5 comments about the project
1 positive, 3 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 0 critical, out of 4 comments about the project.
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What HN said
What people liked
Useful and fast for downloading blocks
From 1 comment
wow can't believe just yesterday I thought how cool it would be to have that - and today you made it! :D downloading... btw did you verify (PoW) blocks using the nonce? just to…
high_byte on HN
Requests
Use binary encoding instead of JSON to reduce size
From 1 comment
also if you could use binary encoding rather than json you could probably cut the size by half. I already started download, but perhaps it's worth noting in your website to use…
high_byte on HN
Document gzip/--compressed option
From 1 comment
also if you could use binary encoding rather than json you could probably cut the size by half. I already started download, but perhaps it's worth noting in your website to use…
high_byte on HN
Questions
Are blocks verified using the PoW nonce?
From 1 comment
wow can't believe just yesterday I thought how cool it would be to have that - and today you made it! :D downloading... btw did you verify (PoW) blocks using the nonce? just to…
high_byte on HN
Is it a full node or archive node?
From 1 comment
Are you exposing full node or archive node? Because Archive node is several terabytes :)
kevinsimper on HN
How is compute cost managed?
From 1 comment
Curious how you managed compute cost. Are you running a node locally?
tarunmuvvala on HN