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May 10, 2015, 07:06:20 PM
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a block size limit and why i keep hearing 20mb 1mb cap on blocks and all these hard and soft forks why wot dose it mean?

it enables more transfers in a single block? but then wot about the 10 minute creation time
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May 10, 2015, 07:54:17 PM
Last edit: May 10, 2015, 08:09:30 PM by DannyHamilton
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Here, let me clean that up for you so that others might actually understand what you're saying.

What is:
a block size limit and why do I keep hearing 20mb or 1mb cap on blocks? All these hard and soft forks, why? What does it mean?

Does it enable more transfers in a single block? What effect would such changes have on the 10 minute creation time?

I assume that is what you meant?

If so, here are your answers:

Q. What is a block size limit?
A. It is a limit on the size (in number of bytes) of each block in the blockchain.

Q. Why do I keep hearing 20mb or 1mb cap on blocks?
A. Blocks have been limited to a maximum of 1 megabyte in size for many years now.  Since each transaction takes up some bytes in the block, the limits the total number of transaction that a block can hold.  Since blocks only occur on average very 10 minutes, a limit on the size of a block limits the number of transactions per hour bitcoin can support. There has been some talk for over a year now about increasing the maximum size of a block.  More recently Gavin Andresen has made some efforts towards incorporating future changes to the reference client to adjust the limit from 1 megabyte to 20 megabytes.  This should allow 20X more transactions in a block, and therefore increase the overall maximum transaction rate of bitcoin 20X.

Q. Does it enable more transfers in a single block?
A. Yes.  It increases the maximum number of transactions that a block can contain.

Q. What effect would such changes have on the 10 minute creation time?
A. None at all.
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