Chapter 5 The Bitcoin Civil War

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

Nov 10, 202100:35:22Technology

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 bon...

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