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Bitcoin is ECDSA verification, letsencrypt is generating RSA signatures, the two aren't even remotely comparable.
by RL_Quine 6y ago
Bitcoin is ECDSA verification, letsencrypt is generating RSA signatures, the two aren't even remotely comparable.
- schoen 6y agoBut the cryptographic bottleneck is in HSMs, not in database servers (database servers don't generate the digital signatures, they just have to store them after they've been generated).
- SulfurHexaFluri 6y agoBitcoin is actually not limited by compute power at all. Its an artificial cap on transaction rate to prevent the blockchain from expanding too large and preventing normal users from hosting the whole thing. You can see the blockchain size was growing exponentially but then switches to linear as we hit the transaction cap and it now sits at about 350GB