Can Bitcoin Scale?

Can Bitcoin Scale?

The ongoing debate about whether or not Bitcoin can scale sufficiently on its path to mass adoption has led many people to question if it will ever reach that point at all.The Bitcoin protocol’s main focus is providing security in transactions. It prevents double-spending by making it incredibly difficult to reverse a transaction because of the energy spent verifying these transactions. It only releases a set number of bitcoins into the world — and it does so very slowly. It is meant to be simple in purpose but highly secure in practice. When all of these feats are achieved, it eventually....


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