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What Is Data Availability? | Alexandria

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Contributor: When blockchains begin to scale, they often run into the data availability problem — we break down exactly what that is here.

Contributor: When blockchains begin to scale, they often run into the data availability problem — we break down exactly what that is here. “Data availability” and the “data availability problem” are terms used to refer to a specific problem faced in various blockchain scaling strategies. This problem asks: how can nodes be sure that when a new block is produced, all of the data in that block was actually published to the network? The dilemma is that if a block producer doesn’t release all of the data in a block, no one could detect if there is a malicious transaction hidden within that…

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