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Block Size

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A limit on the amount of data that can be included in a block. Block size constraints influence throughput, fees, and decentralization tradeoffs.

Appears in 10 whitepaper sections

$USDT Tether
Challenges and Risks
...kchain impose constraints on Tether's scalability and cost structure. Bitcoin's block size limits transaction throughput to approximately seven transactions per second, a...
$XRP XRP
Existing Consensus Algorithms
...the system through transaction fees and inflation. - **Throughput.** Bitcoin's block size limit and 10-minute block interval restrict throughput to approximately 7 trans...
$DOGE Dogecoin
Technical Specifications
... block has a maximum size of one megabyte, consistent with the original Bitcoin block size limit. Given the one-minute block time, this provides an effective throughput c...
$BCH Bitcoin Cash
Abstract
...reated in response to Bitcoin's scaling limitations, Bitcoin Cash increased the block size limit to enable greater transaction throughput and lower fees, restoring the or...
Introduction
...ntal constraint began to limit its utility as electronic cash. The one-megabyte block size limit, originally introduced as a temporary anti-spam measure, created an artif...
Background: The Scaling Debate
...tralization, technical philosophy, and the very identity of Bitcoin. Bitcoin's block size limit of one megabyte was introduced by Satoshi Nakamoto in 2010 as a temporary...
The Fork
...ctivation, and the new chain, which became Bitcoin Cash (BCH) with an increased block size limit of 8MB. The fork was technically clean and well-planned. Every Bitcoin a...
Technical Specifications
...fferentiate it from the Bitcoin protocol. The most prominent difference is the block size limit. Bitcoin Cash launched with an 8MB block size limit and subsequently incr...
Transaction Throughput and Scalability
...ng through larger blocks is the most reliable way to achieve this. With a 32MB block size limit and a ten-minute block interval, Bitcoin Cash has a theoretical maximum t...
Conclusion
... the original Bitcoin vision as peer-to-peer electronic cash. By increasing the block size limit and pursuing on-chain scaling, Bitcoin Cash has maintained the low fees a...