Redesigning Blockchains: SSD-optimized Verifiable Databases and Beyond (Daniel Lin-Kit Wong)

Speaker:

Daniel Lin-Kit Wong

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QMDB

Blockchains are decentralized ledgers that replace trusted central authorities with verifiable distributed consensus. This decentralization has resulted in blockchains effectively becoming ‘slow and expensive computers’, but there are huge opportunities for architectural optimization across the entire blockchain software stack. We begin this talk by outlining the scaling challenges from a systems researcher’s perspective, and discussing the bottlenecks faced in computation,... Read More