«The bottom line is that clients have a ton of liberty about what they store, and if people start to feel real pain
about blockchain size, clients will adapt to reduce what they store in a variety of ways,» Gupta told CoinDesk, adding:
Computer scientist and bitcoin developer Gavin Andresen believes that the Ethereum network will challenge and eventually replace bitcoin as its scaling capability and
blockchain size exceeds those of bitcoin.
The other reason for the discrepancy between the number of blocks and
total blockchain size is that Bitcoin still has much higher transaction volume than Bitcoin Cash, meaning that each Bitcoin block contains more data.
Bitcoin has been embroiled in many controversies and debates, the most heated of which has been on whether
the blockchain size limit should be increased or not.
One of the proposed code improvement protocols designed to solve
the Blockchain size limitation is called SegWit — a portmanteau of «Segregated Witness».
Core believes that among other things, increasing
the blockchain size to anything beyond the current 1 MB cap will threaten cryptocurrency's decentralized state.
It looks like the page has not been updated for months as it states
the blockchain size of 65 GB.
This represents a processing bottleneck that will only get worse as
the blockchain size and the number of transactions per second increase.
Similarly, following Litecoin's path, Litecoin Cash has
a blockchain size of only 13 GB compared to the much higher 145 GB blockchain size of Bitcoin.
These include market capitalization for various digital currencies,
blockchain size, update on Segwit adoption, amount of currencies in circulation, mining revenues, trade volumes and price graphs and charts (weekly, monthly, daily and yearly or all - time).
The reason that more centralization is a possibility for Bitcoin Cash is that
its blockchain size is now growing about 8x faster than Bitcoin's.
SegWit was also intended to mitigate
a blockchain size limitation problem that reduces Bitcoin transaction speed.
(a portmanteau for «Segregated Witness») was introduced in August 2017 as an improvement protocol designed to solve
the blockchain size limitation.
SegWit (a portmanteau for «Segregated Witness») was introduced in August 2017 as an improvement protocol designed to solve
the blockchain size limitation.