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From: Tom Zander <tomz@freedommail•ch>
To: bitcoin-dev@lists•linuxfoundation.org,
	Cserveny Tamas <cserveny.tamas+bc@gmail•com>
Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] Horizontal scaling of blockchain
Date: Fri, 01 Sep 2017 15:12:18 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1570222.Uh686LP1o4@strawberry> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CACY+MSO8PM89VTtKfuZiQGvAs7a7R6_4mY+onhZh9KnvwxW2uw@mail.gmail.com>

On Friday, 1 September 2017 14:47:08 CEST Cserveny Tamas via bitcoin-dev 
wrote:
> The fundamental problem is that if the miners add capacity it will only
> increase (protect) their share of block reward, but does not increase the
> speed of transactions.

Adding more space in blocks has no effect on the block-reward. It does 
actually increase the throughput speed of transactions.

> This will only raise the fee in the long run with
> the block reward decreasing.

Also this is exactly the opposite of what actually happened.

> The current chain is effectively single threaded. 

This is not true, since xthin/compactblocks have been introduced we 
completely removed this bottle-neck.
The transactions will be validated continuously, in parallel and not just 
when a block is found.

-- 
Tom Zander
Blog: https://zander.github.io
Vlog: https://vimeo.com/channels/tomscryptochannel


  reply	other threads:[~2017-09-01 13:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-09-01 12:47 Cserveny Tamas
2017-09-01 13:12 ` Tom Zander [this message]
2017-09-01 17:15   ` Lucas Clemente Vella
2017-09-01 17:24     ` Thomas Guyot-Sionnest
2017-09-01 18:15     ` Cserveny Tamas
2017-09-01 19:40       ` Thomas Guyot-Sionnest
2017-09-02 21:13       ` Tom Zander

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