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Janus Troelsen
  • born in 1991, grew up in Denmark
  • moved to Darmstadt, Hesse at 19 years old
  • studied computer science
  • got into Bitcoin, dropped out, moved to Berlin
  • lived one year in Berlin, got into functional programming
  • quit job, escaped to Mexico

URLs for Janus Troelsen

Mastodon: https://x0r.be/@Janus

Github: https://github.com/ysangkok

Events for Janus Troelsen

Talk: Utreexo: A dynamic hash-based accumulator data structure

Utreexo is a forest of perfect Merkle trees (binary trees) that functions as an accumulator. The accumulator implementation ideally has the following signature (Python syntax):

Proof = List[Hash] # type synonym to improve readability

verify_existence(p: Proof) -> bool # was the hash associated with the proof previously added to the forest and not deleted?

add(to_add: Hash) -> Proof # mutably add given hash to the forest, returns a proof of its existence (a pa… Read more

Schedule:

  • Wednesday, Aug 12th, 2020, 16:00 (CEST) - Wednesday, Aug 12th, 2020, 17:00 (CEST)