Big Block Breakthrough: 1 Gigabyte BCH Scalenet Block Mined With Raspberry Pi4

Big Block Breakthrough: 1 Gigabyte BCH Scalenet Block Mined With Raspberry Pi4

While it seems the big block vs. small block debate is over, it is still relevant in the cryptocurrency sphere and some users are still delving into the limits of big blocks. Mtrycz, a writer leveraging the read.cash blogging platform, claims to have mined 1 gigabyte (GB) block using a Raspberry Pi4 on the Bitcoin Cash scalenet, showing it is indeed possible to deal with these block sizes, albeit only in an experimental way for now. 1GB Block Mined With a Raspberry Pi4 Mtrycz, a writer who regularly posts experiments to the BCH-based blog platform read.cash, has achieved a mining....


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