Green: Altcoins are experimenting with supernodes for fast transaction confirmations
Matthew Green · a16z Podcast | Beyond Bitcoin -- The Blockchain · Jan 2, 2019 · at 18:39
Matthew Green, cryptographer and computer science professor, addresses how alternative cryptocurrencies attempt to solve Bitcoin's transaction confirmation delays.
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“So some of the altcoins, actually anonymous altcoins, have middle, semi, semi-decentralized layers, where there are the users, and then there's kind of a small number of supernodes. And an experiment that some of these altcoins are doing is trying to use those For fast confirmations.”
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