44 What are Channel Factories and how do they work? 2018-01-01T18:16:06.063

30 Are there any studies into the size of the blockchain scaling over time? 2012-01-30T11:10:05.300

26 how to monitor +20,000 addresses for new received transactions? 2012-08-20T19:51:30.133

21 What are the arguments for and against the increase of the block size limit? 2015-02-17T07:42:18.610

18 What is "segregated witness" and how can it improve network scalability? 2015-12-10T08:51:32.560

17 Is "Reclaiming Disk Space" already implemented? How effective will it be? 2012-01-14T19:44:58.450

16 Capabilities of Bitcoins and their place in the future 2011-10-23T22:17:05.543

16 What is the User Activated Softfork (UASF) proposal? How do its risks compare to hardforks? 2017-03-06T10:40:15.723

15 Can the number of transactions per second ever overwhelm the network? 2011-09-03T20:16:47.363

13 Does the original Bitcoin client scale to contain millions of addresses? 2013-12-29T20:34:54.247

12 How well does P2Pool scale? 2012-02-06T08:33:10.630

12 How many more transactions per second will be possible with SegWit? 2016-06-22T23:23:30.653

11 What is the maximum throughput of the Bitcoin network? (2013) 2012-06-13T10:29:05.093

11 What are the segregated witness tradeoffs? 2015-12-10T21:45:51.677

9 Bitcoin "accounts" feature - Is it practical or scalable? 2014-01-25T20:10:23.233

9 Why would we ever need 10k new addresses in average per day? 2014-03-29T19:32:19.777

9 If there a formula to decide when more decimal places will be added to Bitcoin? 2016-05-27T23:55:13.890

9 Channels state validation in lightning network? 2016-06-27T02:54:57.423

8 Can Bitcoin blocks be organized into shards? 2012-06-19T04:01:28.093

8 How many addresses can be handled reliable in one wallet? 2012-10-02T10:14:05.513

8 Lightning Network scaling alternatives? 2016-05-27T11:53:14.360

8 Bitcoin distribution 2016-06-01T00:17:08.870

8 What is the Lightning Network proposal? What problem is it trying to solve? 2016-08-26T21:49:00.487

8 What is the maximum number of transactions per seconds on Bitcoin Cash? 2017-08-02T11:46:15.463

7 Bitcoin protocol / algorithm scalability 2012-02-08T18:12:01.057

7 Would sidechains help Bitcoin scale? 2015-10-05T14:26:51.263

6 What will happen when bitcoin's popularity multiplies and the number of transactions explodes? 2013-08-29T15:20:16.627

6 Scalability of namecoin 2013-12-09T15:28:33.920

6 Can blockchain size become a blocker for bitcoin adoption? 2014-01-11T20:10:38.590

6 If there is a block-size hard fork, will the old chain have an advantage? 2015-02-21T02:23:31.430

6 Is the SPV client model scalable? 2015-05-11T14:31:25.240

6 Is there a (potential) "Blockchain size problem", and what solutions are available? 2015-07-24T11:50:19.310

6 Arguments against Bitcoin using adaptive blocksizes 2016-06-28T03:27:13.967

6 What is the Big-O for LN bandwidth? Can anyone answer this or provide a link to a spec that is sufficient enough for us to calculate it? 2019-05-06T06:53:57.587

5 Blockchain long run issue 2013-04-28T12:22:54.853

5 Bandwidth required for Bitcoin going global? 2013-11-25T10:37:50.210

5 Without side chains will transaction fees rise as block rewards fall? 2016-05-27T21:14:59.907

5 Will Bitcoin scaling affect the amount of hashing power required to keep the network secure? 2016-10-21T16:15:23.177

4 What is going to happen when it is totally infeasible to download the entire bitcoin transaction history? 2012-09-01T18:55:00.320

4 what is the motivation behind one-cpu-one-vote rule? 2012-12-07T07:56:22.260

4 Is Ripple.com scalable? 2013-04-02T14:19:14.867

4 Can someone saturate the network? 2013-04-07T19:36:37.743

4 Is the "Finite Blockchain" idea secure? 2013-07-06T09:28:55.090

4 Build an online wallet service with Bitcoind, can it scale? If not, what can be done? 2014-01-20T04:12:53.717

4 Can transactions scale sufficiently to compensate the diminishing block reward by fees? 2015-10-04T08:09:37.463

4 How to calculate signature generation, signature verification, transaction verification speed? 2015-10-10T09:56:31.890

4 How scalable is a Blockchain-based system? 2017-06-08T10:01:49.733

4 Blockchain size problem 2017-10-08T23:40:22.523

4 Is it possible to splice a new participant into a LN channel factory? 2018-07-20T13:26:32.413

3 what is the relationship between the blockchain size and the transaction volume on the network? 2012-05-15T21:17:18.013

3 Would it be possible to make a functional Bitcoin fork that confirmed a block of transactions every millisecond? 2013-04-03T07:52:54.297

3 Is Ripple's distributed exchange scalable? 2013-04-13T11:13:23.707

3 Growth Dependent Block Size Limit 2014-09-26T18:43:54.020

3 Is bitcoin vulnerable to a DOS/spam attack? 2014-10-01T05:02:13.850

3 Do larger blocks make it harder for smaller miners to compete? Why? 2016-01-03T16:38:24.370

3 Quadratic hashing problem: Why not just create new OP code "CHECKSIG2" to fix? 2017-02-09T19:14:25.230

3 What is the difference between on-chain scaling and off-chain scaling? 2017-11-24T19:27:14.940

3 What are the downsides of integrating accumulators like utreexo to bitcoind? 2019-07-13T21:24:34.170

2 What will be required to increase the "soft" 500KB per-block data limit 2012-05-20T20:00:11.643

2 What technology will supersede the BerkleyDB format? What are the current scalability limitations? 2012-09-23T20:08:22.833

2 What is the maximum amount of users bitcoin is ideally suited for? 2013-09-20T19:05:42.687

2 Is the process of indexing transactions by assigning a transaction id necessary, or is it a scalability issue? 2013-09-23T16:28:19.520

2 What if any proposed blockchain enhancements that require hard forks would require new ASIC hardware? 2015-12-08T16:13:42.347

2 How does bitcoin handle extreme transaction volume? 2016-04-15T22:33:08.743

2 Is reliance on a UTXO Set provided by other users dangerous? 2016-06-14T22:36:51.020

2 How will Bitcoin and the Blockchain scale in the future? 2016-08-03T23:55:19.670

2 Why not multiply "six confirmations" and divide Time-Between-Blocks and Reward by the same factor? 2017-01-10T04:25:58.770

2 How would Bitcoin look like if the primary design goal was to have LN-like payments? 2017-02-12T09:52:40.787

2 How often are mining nodes updated with new transactions 2017-02-22T01:37:02.547

2 On the feasibility of fees 2017-05-23T11:36:26.560

2 Incentives for Segwit vs BTU 2017-05-26T16:49:13.193

2 Which kinds of transactions show quadratic signature-hashing scaling? 2017-06-08T05:04:20.097

2 Blocks, scaling and segwit question 2017-06-28T16:55:29.330

2 Is bitcoin sustainable? 2017-09-16T21:15:16.790

2 Bitcoin fees as of 2017-10 range from $3-$10 to send. How is this going to be sustainable with an increasing price? 2017-10-18T03:47:33.240

2 On-chain scaling still required with Lightning Network? 2017-12-22T02:33:08.353

2 What cryptocurrency has the most potential to replace everyday cash / casual transactions? 2018-01-04T13:29:44.477

2 What is the difference between Compact Blocks, Thin Blocks, Xthin and Graphene Compression? 2018-07-27T12:18:19.347

2 Does a transaction always get verified/processed by ALL full nodes in the network before being added into the block by some mining node(s)? 2018-11-08T04:19:03.553

2 Why is liquid so inactive and (according to statistics) not being used yet? 2019-01-05T12:07:00.233

1 Howto scale thousands of bitcoin accounts properly with bitcoind deamon? 2014-01-14T16:21:22.193

1 Armory takes 8 Hours to sync. Is it going to get worse as Bitcoin becomes more popular? 2014-01-24T16:38:04.447

1 What would happen to the world if Bitcoin were the only allowed currency? 2016-02-23T12:03:33.413

1 Can more transactions be processed within a centralized bitcoin exchanges than in the rest of the bitcoin network? 2016-07-08T00:15:13.690

1 Scalable implementation of Bitcoin 2017-04-07T10:58:04.617

1 Does Bitcoin's high price make payments in stores less viable? 2017-05-29T14:44:57.107

1 How do Bitcoin and Litecoin compare in scalability? 2017-06-08T16:44:32.520

1 Segwit: Arbitrary data storage in witness? 2017-06-23T19:47:15.517

1 Why is there so much uncertainty with SegWit2x when it has 85%+ mining support? 2017-07-13T09:10:19.513

1 Does the entire blockchain have to be recomputed to validate a transaction? 2017-12-15T19:41:32.993

1 Why is Bitcoin's unconfirmed transaction count rising and what effect does it have on the network? 2017-12-22T04:50:43.940

1 Polling for transactions -- possible scalability issues? 2017-12-30T16:09:28.513

1 Can we drive the bitcoin transaction fee arbitrarily close to zero by keep increasing the block size limit? 2017-12-30T20:29:01.417

1 Why blocks are validated instead of transactions? 2018-05-02T07:30:56.983

1 What is the smallest fee you can pay for an on chain transaction? 2018-06-05T22:21:45.283

1 Is PBFT a consensus algorithm? 2018-09-19T11:25:21.153

0 Why will or will not the bitcoin infrastructure become unsustainable? 2013-03-07T20:06:14.517

0 Economic effect of Bitcoin 2015-11-17T18:53:57.350

0 Why would I trust a cryptocurrency that allow only 3 transactions/s? 2017-02-07T23:13:00.143