Chapter 5 The Bitcoin Civil War

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. Buy the actual book on Amazon paperback & Kindle . Listen to this episode on Youtube | Audiobook Podcast Youtube Playlist | Feel free to support this work by liking, subscribing and leaving a comment on our podcast page, sharing on social media, or making a contribution on Patreon . Disclaimer | This work contains the music track RW Smith - Dig Deep that is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license | Source: | Author: RW Smith

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Chapter 5 The Bitcoin Civil War is an episode from WTF is Bitcoin?! The Cryptocurrency & Blockchain Guide for Dinner Parties by Maxim Beatty.

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This episode was published on Nov 10, 2021.

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