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published November 13, 2021 by Elle Mouton

Compact Block Filters Deep Dive (BIP 158)

In this post, I will briefly describe the needs of a bitcoin light client and why compact block filters satisfy these needs better than Bloom filters do. Then I will dive into exactly how compact block filters work and will follow this with a step-by-step guide for constructing such a filter from a …