March 2018
Beginner to intermediate
656 pages
20h 9m
English
Content preview from Mastering Blockchain - Second Edition
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Falcon
Falcon is a project that helps Bitcoin to scale by providing a fast relay network for broadcasting Bitcoin blocks over the network. The core idea revolves around a technique to reduce orphan blocks, thus helping with the overall scalability of the Bitcoin network. The technique used for this purpose has been called application-level cut-through routing.