[bitcoin-dev] Horizontal scaling of blockchain

2017-09-01 Thread Cserveny Tamas via bitcoin-dev
Hi, I was thinking about how to scale the block-chain. The fundamental problem is that if the miners add capacity it will only increase (protect) their share of block reward, but does not increase the speed of transactions. This will only raise the fee in the long run with the block reward decrea

Re: [bitcoin-dev] Horizontal scaling of blockchain

2017-09-01 Thread Cserveny Tamas via bitcoin-dev
Yes. I meant the single thread as an analogy, if a block is found, other blocks are worthless. (more or less) Longest chain wins. My line of though was, that currently the only way to scale with the traffic (and lowering the fees) is increasing the block size (which is hard as I learned from recen