RE: Time to End the Block-Size Blockade - by Roger Ver

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Time to End the Block-Size Blockade - by Roger Ver

in bitcoin •  8 years ago 

Your assumptions are off by quite a lot actually. sha256 chews through about 100MB/s. On 5 year old hardware. And single-threading.

So I'm wondering where that 5ms comes from.

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      ·  8 years ago 

    That's not the only operation in tx verification in a block; the signatures have to be verified (the expensive bit), the inputs have to be checked against the utxo set, and the scripts need to be executed.

    It's not that simple.

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        ·  8 years ago 

      bitcoind is slow

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