Scalability refers to the capability of a system or network to cope with growing adoption and workload.
Questions tagged [scalability]
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what is the motivation behind one-cpu-one-vote rule?
Original paper published by Satoshi Nakamoto, compares between one-cpu-one-vote and one-ip-address-one-vote, then chooses former because of the reason that someone would be able to allocate more than one IP.
This statement also sounds against anyone…
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How will the Bitcoin scalability problem affect every-day users in the future?
I get that this will cause transactions to take an extremely long time to process, but why is this a problem? Credit card transactions take about 1-3 days to process, yet many vendors still accept them. Will everyday stores and sellers not accept…
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Is bitcoin sustainable?
A rather dumb title, however I have question that I cant get a grip on related to bitcoin:
If the amount of bitcoin is supposed to have an upper limit, what is the incentive to mine in the future if that limit is reached?
If one entity controls…
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Scalable implementation of Bitcoin
What reference implementations of Bitcoin are most suitable for backing a front end service on to with a high user load?
Something that can be put onto our own AWS or Google Cloud hardware and support being scaled up to support high demand. The…
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Is Bitcoin truly scarce?
I'm a newbie to crypto/blockchain, but I'm very excited about the possibilities. Given how passionate folks can be about the subject, I want to be very clear that I'm not trying to indict Bitcoin or cryptocurrencies in general. I'm trying to…
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Is there a roadmap to lift the current limit of 220M transactions per year?
I've seen that Bitcoin just supports ~3 TPS. This is 220 millions transactions per year. If every US citizen wanted to perform a single transaction on a year, they simply couldn't.
I've also read a lot of "Bitcoin's vision" that is completely…
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