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Plans and arguments around the Block size limit increase from 1MB.
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Do larger blocks make it harder for smaller miners to compete? Why?
Larger blocks take longer to propagate. However, when you have solved a block yourself, there is no delay (regardless of the size), because you already have all of the block data and have already chec …
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What's the purpose of a maximum block size?
Why is this limit present?
1. To Maintain Consensus
There has to be clearly defined rules about which blocks are valid and which are not for the network to agree. Obviously no node will accept a …
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If block sizes go up, won't sigop limits have to change too?
Yes, the maximum number of signature operations per block also need to change. It may change dynamically with the block size limit. The code currently assumes a ratio of MAX_BLOCK_SIZE to MAX_BLOCK_SI …
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If there is a block-size hard fork, will the old chain have an advantage?
If there is a block-size hard fork, will the old chain have an advantage?
This is partially true, but it is not as grave a problem as the writer would have us believe. It would be much more probl …
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What is "segregated witness" and how can it improve network scalability?
It's not a silver bullet solution, but it's a really good start.
As Gavin Andresen has said, Segregated Witness is a poor name. The 'segregated' part of the name is there to denote that there is se …
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