Not exact matches
He clarified that the project aims to increase the maximum
block size limit to 2
Mb, while in fact helping to decrease the actual and
average block size.
Last week, the
average block size for bitcoin core (BCT) fell to just over 0.5
MB, its smallest since January 2016.
Average Bitcoin
block size has fallen approximately 1
MB prior to the upgrade to about 0.84 now.
The crux of the debate primarily revolves around Bitcoin's current 1
MB block size limit, where each
block in the Bitcoin blockchain, created at an
average rate of one
block every 10 minutes, can only accommodate up to 1
MB of Bitcoin transactions.
However, there are many companies and software projects preparing to deploy SegWit, which will push the
average block size up toward 2
MB.
Although only five percent of transactions are SegWit - enabled as of now, the
average block size has decreased from 1
MB to 0.86 and the
size of the Bitcoin mempool has decreased from 150 mln bytes to less than 10 mln bytes.