Sentences with phrase «longest chain of transactions»

Yet some miners were initially slow to adopt the raised gas limit despite calls for an increase, as a higher limit can increase the frequency of uncle blocks, or blocks that are mined but don't form the longest chain of transactions.

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However, cardholders who frequently shop at luxury retail chains like Saks Fifth Avenue are more likely to purchase high - ticket items regularly; therefore, it will be extremely difficult to distinguish fraudulent transactions from those of a legitimate nature, allowing criminals to abuse stolen payment cards and remain undetected for a longer period of time.

The ledger forms a long chain of verified transactions in chronological ordered.

If an individual transaction is subsequently modified on a computer, this is immediately noticeable because a whole chain of checksums is no longer correct.

We have represented clients in finance transactions across the spectrum of the health care industry, including device manufacturers, pharmaceutical companies, hospitals, acute and long term care facilities, drug store chains, health care staffing companies, and independent physician associations, among others.

Longer - term, blockchain engineers on many of the largest blockchains are working on a range of «off - chain» solutions that could help the technology scale to more users, all while slashing the cost of using the network, and your transaction fees.

Another key point made by Lombrozo during the panel discussion was that different players in the Bitcoin ecosystem desire different features in the protocol; for example, long - term holders may not care as much about $ 10 on - chain transaction fees as those who have built businesses around the use of the blockchain for coffee purchases or other low - value transactions.

«This is obviously incompatible with a protocol based on anonymous transaction validators; the law will not treat a ledger record as authoritative if everyone knows that the current longest chain contains blocks generated by an anonymous attacker who replaced a bit of history that was chronologically prior.

As it became increasingly apparent that 1 MB blocks weren't going to support Bitcoin transaction volume for much longer, supporters of on - chain scaling chose to develop a protocol that would increase the block size to 8 MB.

However, moving transactions out of the main chain also moves the transaction fees, and miners are then no longer rewarded as much for processing transactions.

As for how it would be measuring the success of Ethereum Classic, representatives said the company would support the «longest chain», or the version of the blockchain containing the most sealed transaction blocks.

Those blocks will only be added to the longest chain if they don't contain invalid transactions (assuming malicious miners don't control 51 % or more of the mining power).

As long as Kim Dotcom keeps technical details of the project in secret, bitcoiners only can guess how the bitcoin transactions can be carried out and if they will be performed on - chain.