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This is a generalization that is meaningless without the context of what the bottleneck actually is. Bandwidth works, processing blocks 1,000 times bigger work
by AboutTheWhisles 9y ago
This is a generalization that is meaningless without the context of what the bottleneck actually is. Bandwidth works, processing blocks 1,000 times bigger works, what exactly do you think would be the problem? 1GB every 10 minutes is 1.6MB/s. The DOCSIS 3.0 standard goes higher than 100MB/s and anyone can rent a VPS with a gigabit connection for $15 - $20 USD per month.
- gizmo686 9y agohttps://youtu.be/LDF8bOEqXt4?t=4722 https://youtu.be/LDF8bOEqXt4?t=4722 The bottleneck is propagation time. Also "The propogation time did not depend strongly on the network bandwidth for the given nodes" Keep in mind that it is not sufficient for each node to have the bare minimum amount of bandwidth to download 1 block every ten minutes. When a node mines a block, we need that block to propagate across the entire network (~11,000 nodes [0]). Further, we want this propagation time to be relatively trivial; otherwise the number of orphan blocks would increase giving an advantage to large mining clusters and reducing the overall security of the network. [0] https://bitnodes.earn.com/dashboard/ https://bitnodes.earn.com/dashboard/