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The leaves still grow with the square root of the tree size, which is certainly better than linear, but doesn't really solve the problem. It buys you one less o
by erikpukinskis 9y ago
The leaves still grow with the square root of the tree size, which is certainly better than linear, but doesn't really solve the problem. It buys you one less order of magnitude you have to scale to, but only one.
If you're growing by an order of magnitude every few years, it's just buying you an extra few years lead time.
- placeybordeaux 9y agoIf we only wanted to track the current unspent outputs we're sitting at 54M which interestingly has been holding relatively constant since June. Where as the total number of transactions (size of blockchain in general) is at 240M and is strictly monotonically increasing. See UTXO here: https://blockchain.info/charts/utxo-count https://blockchain.info/charts/utxo-count See total TX here: https://blockchain.info/charts/n-transactions-total https://blockchain.info/charts/n-transactions-total Every block for the near future will include one new UTXO, but it can increase, decrease or keep the total number of UTXO the same.