Scalability refers to the capability of a system or network to cope with growing adoption and workload.
Questions tagged [scalability]
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How does the Lightning network work in simple terms?
Could you please describe how the Lightning network is supposed to work?
How does it scale better than pure blockchain transactions?
What are the advantages and disadvantages of Lightning Network and blockchain transactions?
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What are Channel Factories and how do they work?
One of the open research questions for Lightning Network is that it will take a massive amount of on-chain transactions to create enough payment channels for all the Lightning Network users. Lately, I've seen the term "Channel Factories"¹ pop-up in…
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Are there any studies into the size of the blockchain scaling over time?
After watching some of one of the 28c3 talks, It got me thinking about just how scalable Bitcoin really is.
With the size of the blockchain currently, given the number of transactions/users, will the size of the blockchain be manageable as Bitcoin…
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how to monitor +20,000 addresses for new received transactions?
I have around 20000 generated addresses which I want to monitor for new transactions. More addresses should probably come. Customers should use every address only once but I would like to monitor already used addresses if some of them decide to…
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What are the arguments for and against the increase of the block size limit?
Can someone give a quick point by point list, what arguments the proponents and opponents of increased blocksize have for their case?
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What is "segregated witness" and how can it improve network scalability?
I've just heard about it, and it is claimed to be a "turning point" in the block-size debate.
What is "segregated witness?" how does it work?
How can it be used for improving network scalability?
Is this the answer to all of network's scalability…
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Is "Reclaiming Disk Space" already implemented? How effective will it be?
Some people are concerned about the scalability of Bitcoin. The blockchain already has reached nearly 1 GB to download and store, which is not exactly in the spirit of a modern thin client, especially in regards to mobile devices.
Now when…
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What is the User Activated Softfork (UASF) proposal? How do its risks compare to hardforks?
The Bitcoin community is abuzz with discussion about shaolinfry's proposal of a UASF to activate SegWit as an alternative to the Version Bits activation. I've seen frequent and extensive discussion of the proposal and especially questions about the…
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Capabilities of Bitcoins and their place in the future
I`ve recently read a presentation that mentioned a couple things about how big would be the potential bandwidth if Bitcoins would handle the transaction volume of Visa:
http://www.slideshare.net/dakami/black-ops-of-tcpip-2011-black-hat-usa-2011
It…
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Can the number of transactions per second ever overwhelm the network?
I'm coming at this from a point of view that assumes Bitcoin has been widely adopted as a currency worldwide and is essentially mainstream. Every day people are using Bitcoin in the same way that they use their credit cards today.
Will the…
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Does the original Bitcoin client scale to contain millions of addresses?
We use the standard client in our business. The wallet already contains about 25k addresses. Will the wallet remain stable after the number reaches 100k or a million addresses? I was told that all major business have forked the client. Should we…
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How many more transactions per second will be possible with SegWit?
On a percentage basis compared to the current theoretical limit how many more transactions per second will be possible after SegWit?
Will the answer to number 1 scale linearly with block size increases in the future?
Please exclude the impact of…
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What are the segregated witness tradeoffs?
Segregated witnesses sound like a win in a lot of ways, I'm just trying to understand how they apply to scalability. If I understand correctly, there is a second Merkle tree of witnesses mirroring the transaction data. The witness tree's root is…
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How well does P2Pool scale?
See this thread.
How would P2Pool scale if 10% of Bitcoin mining was done via it? 50%? 100%?
Is the current implementation scalable? If not, are there designs for making it scalable?
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Lightning Network scaling alternatives?
I'm really looking forward to the Lightning Network and all the efforts being put in by Blockchain.info, Blockstream, and others. But I was wondering if there aren't other options for decentralised scaling besides LN?
In particular, are there are…
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