Engineering papers

The analysis behind the network: how transaction and block delivery actually scales, where the pull model breaks, and what the 1BSV multicast fabric does instead. Written for Teranode operators and engineers; grounded in stated, checkable arithmetic.

Analysis · 2026

The Asset service at scale

Why fronting DataHubURL with a CDN extends the gossip problem instead of solving it. Walks the announce-then-pull model up the throughput ladder from 10 k to 1B TPS, shows where origin egress, concurrency, and the block race break, prices the CDN offload network-wide, and sets out the multicast-fabric alternative with white-label co-branded anycast ingress.

Design · 2026

Pushed delivery into a Teranode cluster

The delivery contract: how the sharded multicast fabric feeds a multi-node Teranode cluster over unicast TCP with no hardware load balancer. Push frame formats (BRC-143 subtree, BRC-144 block), distribution and failover mechanics, and the Teranode-side ingest work, gap by gap.

Both papers build on the open BRC specifications listed under Standards. Questions, corrections, or integration conversations: 1bsv@lightweb.net.