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By creating commitments on state, Ethereum offers the possibility of ultra-light clients, where only the state root needs to be downloaded instead of all block headers, that Bitcoin doesn't.


That's not there, yet. That's one of the main criticisms of the original article.

So many promises but so little actual functionality after a decade for Bitcoin and half a decade for Ethereum.




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