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RT Ravenium (@0xRavenium)just got back from listening to @yangl1996 's talk at @StanfordSBA on SALT and honestly the presentation filled in so many gaps from what i researched earlierlei showed actual benchmarks of ethereum clients spending 10x more time updating merkle trees than executing transactions. like literally 1 second processing, 10 seconds updating proofsbut the insight that blew my mind was the "office building" analogy. he explained how merkle trees become sparse at deeper levels - top 4 floors ...