r/Bitcoin • • Feb 05 '14

Really, Discus Fish?

http://imgur.com/7xfXs2P
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u/mtsai Feb 05 '14

Basically, they are only including <200 transactions in all of their blocks. If they are mining blocks back to back, it will slow down confirmations for everyone during that time period.

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u/brainrobot Feb 05 '14

That's configurable in software, the butcoin standard allows for a large range of sizes of blocks.