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Peter Rizun, Andrew Stone -- 1 GB Block Tests -- Scaling Bitcoin Stanford.

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What it is

Peter Rizun and Andrew Stone present results of tests running 1 GB blocks on a Bitcoin test network at Scaling Bitcoin Stanford. The talk argues for big-block scaling and discusses its consequences.

Why Hacker News recommends it

Cited by big-block advocates as evidence that Bitcoin could handle far higher throughput.

  • 2 people recommended it
  • 3 different months
  • 0 strong recommendations
  • first 2017, last 2022

What HN commenters said

  1. “A good talk about really big blocks on bitcoin and what the ramifications are;”

    Talk on very large blocks and their ramifications

    tobiaswk, 2018-02 · Recommendation · in “IOTA: The Brave Little Toaster That Couldn’t”

  2. “this great presentation by Peter Rizun and Andrew Stone”

    Presentation on gradually approaching larger blocks

    intabli, 2022-05 · Recommendation · in “The problem with Bitcoin miners”

Excerpts from Hacker News comments, linked to the originals. Summaries and labels were written by a language model from those comments.

Topics: bitcoin, block size, bitcoin unlimited, testnet, throughput

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