Armstrong preferred to back the alternative solution, Bitcoin Classic, providing for an immediate increase of
the maximum bitcoin block size to 2 MB.
Not exact matches
By 2015, the value of
Bitcoins had increased substantially and average
block size had reached 600 bytes, creating a scenario in which transaction times could run into delays as more
blocks reached
maximum capacity.
The
maximum block size in the main protocol is 1 MB, which restricts the number of transactions
bitcoin can process to approximately 7 per second.
Armstrong's solution: an immediate network shift to
Bitcoin Classic, a competing bitcoin implementation that supporters say would keep the network cheap and accessible by, in the short term, raising the maximum size of transaction blocks from 1 megabyte (MB) t
Bitcoin Classic, a competing
bitcoin implementation that supporters say would keep the network cheap and accessible by, in the short term, raising the maximum size of transaction blocks from 1 megabyte (MB) t
bitcoin implementation that supporters say would keep the network cheap and accessible by, in the short term, raising the
maximum size of transaction
blocks from 1 megabyte (MB) to 2 MB.
More recently, some alternative
Bitcoin clients, such as
Bitcoin Classic, have provided the software necessary for a hard consensus fork related to
maximum block size.
The second part (forking
Bitcoin consensus code to bump the
maximum block size limit to 2 Mb) is more controversial and will likely split the
Bitcoin network.
Meanwhile, support for the alternative path gathered steam with the release of
Bitcoin Classic in February, a repackaging of the
Bitcoin Core software which would double the
maximum block size from 1 MB to 2 MB.
While Segwit aimed at compressing the amount of data in every transaction, hence freeing
block up the distance,
bitcoin cash increased the
size of each
block to a
maximum of 8 megabytes.
The new
maximum block size will allow for a much higher throughput of
Bitcoin transactions on the cash network, where the
maximum allowed message
size of the blockchain is 32 MB, maxing out the total available.
This hard fork would double
Bitcoin's «base
block size limit» to two megabytes, which combined with the
block size limit increase brought by Segregated Witness should make for a total
maximum of eight megabytes of
block space.
This cryptocurrency is based on the CryptoNote protocol and is strict «proof of work» and has no
maximum block size, unlike
Bitcoin.
Segwit sought to compress the amount of data in each transaction, thereby freeing up
block space, while
bitcoin cash made the
size of each
block bigger, up to a
maximum of 8 MB.
Further, Dash's new software rollout will also increase the network's
maximum block size from 1Mb to 2Mb, allowing for about 48 transactions to confirm every second, compared to
Bitcoin's 7.
The latest proposal, in the form of
Bitcoin Classic, would raise the
maximum size of transactions
blocks from a 1 megabyte (MB) limit to a cap of 2 MB.
Bitcoin's main protocol has a
maximum block size of 1 megabyte, which restricts the volume and speed of transactions.
He qualifies the Segregated Witness as a «dead - end» and «overengineering» and hopes the decision to increase the
maximum size of the
block in
bitcoin blockchain would be taken before it is too late.