Bitcoin Block Size and Scaling Issues May Be Solved With This New Solution
Bitcoin, Bitcoin’s Core developers, and Bitcoin’s underlying Blockchain technology have certainly done their job up to this point. Bitcoin has proven to live up to the hype in actual ability and overall value. This global technological experiment has worked out almost perfectly, except for one thing. Bitcoin still does not scale effectively, limited to only seven transactions per second, in theory, and less than half of that in real-life applications. Segregated Witness, or SegWit, doesn’t seem to be coming to save the day anytime soon. However according to its creators, there is a new....
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