Bitcoin : An average joe’s questions regarding the Bitcion ABC v. nChain debate
So I’m going to keep this short and simple. I know that there are more points of contention than the ones I’m about to list, but my understanding is that the main issues are ABC wants CTOR and keep the blocks at 32MB and nChain wants no CTOR and raise block size to 128MB.
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nChain’s philosophy is that we need to massively scale now, that better hardware can handle the bigger blocks, and that CTOR isn’t tested and therefore may be destructive.
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ABC’s philosophy is that we don’t need 128MB now since we barely use the 32MB we have, and that better hardware alone isn’t enough to handle bigger blocks. Therefore we need to implement things like CTOR to improve latency, as in improve the propagation time of massive blocks.
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I’m not sure if I’m just proving I know nothing about how Bitcoin works, but that’s my basic understanding. For now I have a sense that with 128MB blocks, it would take too long for every node to download and validate a block that big without improving the software to allow for things like parallelization. The few articles I’ve read by nChain seem to focus on storage hardware and how storage is getting cheaper and cheaper so increasing block size isn’t an issue. But have they addressed how block size impacts propagation?
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