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Might you or someone else say what or where the bottlenecks are that prevent these from scaling?
by bogomipz 4y ago
Might you or someone else say what or where the bottlenecks are that prevent these from scaling?
- redox99 4y agoThe biggest challenge in general is that the approach of storing every transaction forever leads to petabytes of storage. And you can't expect a decentralized system to require petabytes of storage.
- bogomipz 4y agoI apologize if this a naive question but Proof of work is also decentralized no? Why does Proof of Stake incur these scaling limitations but Proof of work does not?
- coffeeblack 4y agoBoth do.
- bogomipz 4y agoCan you elaborate? The person I was replying to indicated that the problem was one of storage however the only scalability problems I have seen written about have been around transaction processing.[1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitcoin_scalability_problem https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitcoin_scalability_problem
- MacroChip 4y agoNot every node has to store every transaction ever. Nodes can prune old state