Shashank Tivedi

Introduction In the heart of Summer of Bitcoin ’24, Floresta, our lightweight Bitcoin full node implementation, is undergoing a significant transformation. This blog post details our exciting progress in migrating from the async-std runtime to Tokio, the leading async runtime in the Rust ecosystem. This shift promises enhanced performance, stability, and seamless integration with a wider array of Rust libraries and tools. Glossary Before diving into the technical details, let’s first understand the terms...

People watch sports. But why? My parents argue to see the score after the match. They see it as a waste of time. They ask me to make this time productive. I, on the other hand, am also quite extreme. I tend to watch almost every sport I know of. Not all matches but all the important ones. Being lazy, I also don’t look to play any of them as a career, as I know it requires a lot of hard work. And I also don’t have much inspiration to do so. So it seems that my parents are correct as it seems quite logical...