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Bitcoin => Bitcoin Discussion => Topic started by: cayblood on May 18, 2011, 02:22:22 PM



Title: Scalability of block distribution protocol
Post by: cayblood on May 18, 2011, 02:22:22 PM
As the use of bitcoin explodes exponentially, will we ever reach a point where transactions occur more quickly than they can practically be distributed to and verified by other nodes?


Title: Re: Scalability of block distribution protocol
Post by: cayblood on May 19, 2011, 06:18:07 AM
Bump :-)


Title: Re: Scalability of block distribution protocol
Post by: kjj on May 19, 2011, 07:49:27 AM
Not really.

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Scalability (https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Scalability)