Whoa! For folks who’ve run a handful of nodes, validation can feel like a black-box ritual. My first instinct was to treat Bitcoin Core as sacred and opaque, but actually, wait—let me rephrase that: ...

In the eighties, computer processors became faster and faster, while memory access times stagnated and hindered additional performance increases. Something had to be done to speed up memory access and ...

System-on-a-Chip (SoC) designers have a problem, a big problem in fact, Random Access Memory (RAM) is slow, too slow, it just can’t keep up. So they came up with a workaround and it is called cache ...