Re: [Bitcoin-development] Protocol extensions

2011-12-22 Thread Michael Grønager
Agree, but even before that, we will meet problems of the current 1MB/10min limit. The calculations from the scalability link surely indicates that there are 2 options for scalability either go for trusted supernodes backed by huge hardware resources or something else would be needed. The

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Protocol extensions

2011-12-22 Thread Andy Parkins
On 2011 December 21 Wednesday, Christian Decker wrote: Supernodes will be those nodes that verify all transactions and make them available to miners. Since miners will become more and more specialized these supernodes are likely to be owned by the miners themself. To be a miner either you