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Is Ripple's distributed exchange scalable?
This question asks about the scalability of Ripple in general, and has an ok answer.
However, it doesn't mention the distributed exchange built in Ripple. How is its current/future architecture ...
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Can someone saturate the network?
Suppose I have 2 wallets and 1 bitcoin and I write a program to make transfers of 1 satoshi from one wallet into the other.
No suppose I have 100 bitcoins. Wouldn't that saturate the network?
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Why will or will not the bitcoin infrastructure become unsustainable?
I am new to bitcoins, but as I understand the technology:
All transactions must be downloaded to the client machine (say, Grandma's Windows XP machine from 2003)
New transactions are also sent to ...
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what is the motivation behind one-cpu-one-vote rule?
Original paper published by Satoshi Nakamoto, compares between one-cpu-one-vote and one-ip-address-one-vote, then chooses former because of the reason that someone would be able to allocate more than ...
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How many addresses can be handled reliable in one wallet?
I am working on a project which may end up generating a few hundred (or even more) bitcoin addresses a day. From my understanding in theory there is no limit on the number of bitcoin addresses in a ...
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What technology will supersede the BerkleyDB format? What are the current scalability limitations?
How scalable is the BerkleyDB format (the technology used within a wallet), and what are its limitations?
What technology would replace or supplement BerkleyDB to address those scalability ...
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What is going to happen when it is totally infeasible to download the entire bitcoin transaction history?
As far as I know, the bitcoin system currently relies on the principle that all transactions are made by someone with access to the entire history of previous transactions. Since bitcoin's public ...
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how to monitor +20,000 addresses for new received transactions?
I have around 20000 generated addresses which I want to monitor for new transactions. More addresses should probably come. Customers should use every address only once but I would like to monitor ...
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Can Bitcoin blocks be organized into shards?
Bitcoin Scalability is a hot topic. In database architecture design data is segmented into shards or the data is partitioned such that it can be spread among large number of machines.
In the ...
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What will be required to increase the “soft” 500KB per-block data limit
We've alerady hit the point where a block has become 90% full, thanks to the popularity of SatoshiDICE.
The limit can be increased from the 500 KB max per-block in the software to 1 MB per-block ...
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what is the relationship between the blockchain size and the transaction volume on the network?
I'm thinking about the scalability of the system with regard to the transaction volume. Is it possible to predict future blockchain size for a certain future transaction volume? Is the relationship ...
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Bitcoin protocol / algorithm scalability
I have been looking into the Bitcoin protocol / algorithm a bit. I have the basics down, I think, but there are a lot of questions about how the whole thing is supposed to scale. For example,
Each ...
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Are there any studies into the size of the blockchain scaling over time?
After watching some of one of the 28c3 talks, It got me thinking about just how scalable Bitcoin really is.
With the size of the blockchain currently, given the number of transactions/users, will the ...
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Is “Reclaiming Disk Space” already implemented? How effective will it be?
Some people are concerned about the scalability of Bitcoin. The blockchain already has reached nearly 1 GB to download and store, which is not exactly in the spirit of a modern thin client, especially ...
