Factom - Bitcoin Blockchain Savior?

Factom - Bitcoin Blockchain Savior?

Bitcoin may be a victim of its own success. The blockchain is now around 28 gigabytes, and as more people jump on the Bitcoin bandwagon, it will only grow faster. With new Bitcoin technologies like Omni andCounterparty on the horizon, letting us put all kinds of things on the blockchain, scalability has become a concern. Bitcoin's blockchain is not just for bitcoins anymore, and many fear it's running out of room. It increases in size with each transaction, and with the current maximum block size, the network can only support seven transactions per second. This has caused a serious debate....


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