I am researching something on Bitcoin and Bitcoin Cash. I am trying to find out the reasoning behind the fork and what did the developers of Bitcoin Cash expect to get with an 8GB block size?
it is not 8gb, but only 8mb blocksize.
Just more transactions per block and less congestion or is there more to it? I have not been able to find much info about it. What are the positives they got from it?
As you can put more transactions in a block, there is more space for transactions with low fees, such as 1sat/byte (the minimum). So it makes the transactions get their first confirmation faster, within the 10minutes.
The downside is that you are making blocks bigger, so it will be more expensive to run a node.
Bitcoin made an alternative, which bitcoin cash didn't agree, which is to make transactions size smaller, instead of the block bigger. So you can still put more transactions in a block, but the block size is the same.
Can someone guide me in the right direction? I am looking for a neutral point of view and fact based. Please no Bitcoin Cash is shit discussions, that wont help me any further in my research.
I think you should study and get your own opinion. Have you tried bitcoin cash forum? Or bitcoin SV forum?
You are coming to a bitcoin forum asking opinions about an altcoin. Of course people here will tell you that your altcoin is a shitcoin.
You can read satoshi nakamoto opinion here:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=532.msg6306#msg6306The current system where every user is a network node is not the intended configuration for large scale. That would be like every Usenet user runs their own NNTP server. The design supports letting users just be users.
The more burden it is to run a node, the fewer nodes there will be. Those few nodes will be big server farms. The rest will be client nodes that only do transactions and don't generate.