RE: The Battle And Future Of Bitcoin In Jeopardy

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The Battle And Future Of Bitcoin In Jeopardy

in bitcoin •  7 years ago 

I'm curious why can't micropayments scale on chain? Because the network will grow too fast and everybody won't be able to run a full node?
Genuinely want to know.

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      ·  7 years ago 

    Because even if Bitcoin simply replaced fiat in like form, and not doing anything advanced beyond that, we'd be looking at blocks in the terrabytes.... which leads to a chain in the exabytes and beyond.

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