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by JustFinishedBSG 378 days ago
I'm sure shipping a >150GB file to every user is perfectly fine and sound engineering.
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NicolaiS 377 days ago
Parent comment writes: "ship[ing] the tree root hash", for a merkle tree ("bitcoin style") this would just be a single (small) hash no matter the tree size, i.e. 32 bytes is enough.
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VWWHFSfQ 378 days ago
It's not _that_ far off from shipping a 3GB chrome webapp disguised as a desktop app (cough electron)
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kstrauser 378 days ago
What’s a couple orders of magnitude between friends?
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