The purpose of this article is to give some background information for understanding Liu's proof that bitcoin is Turing complete.

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There has been some talk by Amaury Séchet, the lead developer of Bitcoin Cash's reference implementation, about the bitcoin block header not including a transaction count value covered by Proof-of-Work.

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This post summarises some of the approaches to parallelise the merkle tree as well as benchmarking that has been done to see what performance is achievable today with simple consumer hardware.

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