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Mercredi 16 Décembre 2015
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Blockchain scalability (Vitalik Buterin*)

A look at the stumbling blocks to blockchain scalability and some high-level technical solutions.


*Author note: Vitalik Buterin contributed to this article.

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In a talk at CoinJar last fall, well-known bitcoin expert Andreas Antonopoulos made the following comment:

“I have no worries that bitcoin can scale, and the simple reason for that is that I know that IPv4 can’t, and yet I use it every day.”

The issue of bitcoin scalability and the phrase “blockchain scalability” are often seen in technical discussions of the bitcoin protocol. Will the requirements of recording every bitcoin transaction in the blockchain compromise its security (because fewer users will keep a copy of the whole blockchain) or its ability to handle a great number of transactions (because new blocks on which transactions can be recorded are only produced at limited intervals)? In this article, we’ll explore several meanings of “blockchain scalability” and some high-level technical solutions to the issue.

The three main stumbling blocks to blockchain scalability are:...

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http://radar.oreilly.com/2015/01/blockchain-scalability.html

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