Fish: Accumulators separate blockchain consensus from storage for mobile validation
Ben Fish · Towards a Decentralized Storage Network for the Blockchain Computer · Apr 19, 2019 · at 51:44
Ben Fish, a Stanford PhD researcher, explains how cryptographic accumulators decouple consensus validation from state storage in blockchain architecture.
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“Yeah, I recently gave a talk on this in a way of looking at this as a separation of consensus and state but really it's a separation of the consensus layer of a blockchain accounting system from the storage layer you know, where the, you don't have to have the same nodes participating in both. You could have a whole bunch of cell phones running the governance of the, and validation of transactions to the network, and then have some heavy servers actually storing the actual storage of the network in a, in an optimized, you know, decentralized way you know, optimized for storage, but not necessarily participating in, in consensus, so.”
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