My name is Lucas Lima, and over the past few months I have been conducting research with Prof. Edil Medeiros in the area of Fountain Codes applied to Bitcoin, as suggested by Olaoluwa Osuntokun. Thanks Vinteum for sponsoring this work through the fellowship program. Introduction At the time of writing, the Bitcoin blockchain already exceeds 740 GB of storage. This continuous growth in blockchain size represents a challenge for running full nodes, since maintaining a complete copy of the history requires increasingly more disk space and computational resources, raising the operational cost of those nodes. ...