WTF is Bitcoin?! The Cryptocurrency & Blockchain Guide for Dinner Parties

Chapter 5 | The Bitcoin Civil War


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In 2017, Bitcoin's popularity had become a problem. Effectively unable to process more than 400,000 transactions per day (Visa claims to process 150 million transactions per day), how to scale the technology became a bone of contention, that would eventually split the community and lead to the code fork that resulted in the creation of Bitcoin Cash. Find out the technical limitations of the technology and the pros and cons of the respective cryptocurrency scaling strategies.

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WTF is Bitcoin?! The Cryptocurrency & Blockchain Guide for Dinner PartiesBy Maxim Beatty