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Analysis of Bitcoin's current and future transaction throughput bottlenecks.

8 mentions on Hacker News by 2 people: 1 story, 7 comments · first 2021-05-12 · latest 2021-05-24

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  1. …necks are basically whack a mole. I wrote a related paper on scalability in the context of bitcoin: https://github.com/fresheneesz/bitcoinThroughputAnalysis
    comment by billytetrud · 2021-05-24 · in The Limits to Blockchain Scalability
  2. …the section on User Growth and Growth of Public Nodes? Its very relevant to your line of thinking. https://github.com/fresheneesz/bitcoinThroughputAnalysis#use... > a secondary assumption: that off-chain transaction solutions... will ..…
    comment by billytetrud · 2021-05-19 · in An analysis of Bitcoin's throughput bottlenecks
  3. …this section, which goes over the line of thinking you've brought up about increased adoption: https://github.com/fresheneesz/bitcoinThroughputAnalysis#use...
    comment by billytetrud · 2021-05-17 · in An analysis of Bitcoin's throughput bottlenecks
  4. …them is left vauge and implied. I agree this can be improved. I've created an issue for this: https://github.com/fresheneesz/bitcoinThroughputAnalysis/iss... Feel free to comment there. > I don't think I even have to provide a detailed…
    comment by billytetrud · 2021-05-15 · in An analysis of Bitcoin's throughput bottlenecks
  5. …is massively underserved by public full nodes, see the section on Sybil and Eclipse attacks: https://github.com/fresheneesz/bitcoinThroughputAnalysis#syb ... . Your analysis negates the existence of strategies for countering Sybil and…
  6. …is massively underserved by public full nodes, see the section on Sybil and Eclipse attacks: https://github.com/fresheneesz/bitcoinThroughputAnalysis#syb... . We can't rely on just "committed individuals" to run public full nodes. There…
    comment by billytetrud · 2021-05-13 · in An analysis of Bitcoin's throughput bottlenecks
  7. …post is about (in the context of bitcoin). Look at the section on Miner Centralization Pressure: https://github.com/fresheneesz/bitcoinThroughputAnalysis#min... > these high tps coins all seem to get around this by weakening…
    comment by billytetrud · 2021-05-13 · in An analysis of Bitcoin's throughput bottlenecks