Like many others who would like to
see transaction capacity increased on the Bitcoin network via a hard fork, Bhardwaj displayed urgency in his reasoning for switching to Bitcoin Unlimited.
Not exact matches
The reason that it was originally thought that Segregated Witness would not offer much in terms of increased
capacity right out of the gate is that wallets, exchanges and other creators of
transactions must also complete their own upgrades before the benefits of SegWit could be
seen on the network.
Since each user must effectively opt in to the increased
capacity offered by SegWit, the growth in
capacity would be
seen when users start using SegWit
transactions rather than when the protocol change is initially activated.
It's relatively easy for somebody who only holds or occasionally uses Bitcoin to patiently wait and
see what effect SegWit and the Lightning Network will have on
transaction capacity.
Some estimates
see a 25 - 30 % boost in
transaction capacity
Unfortunately the effects of Segwit on
transaction capacity won't be
seen for weeks or even months.
For scaling purposes, Uber
sees around 12
transactions per second, compared to Ethereum «s
capacity of 15
transactions per second.
However, this month has
seen his words challenged as SegWit has received the full support as BTC focuses on Bitcoin Core client release that will allow the Bitcoin network to process faster
transactions and also increase its
capacity.