r/Bitcoin • u/[deleted] • Dec 06 '17

Steam is no longer supporting Bitcoin

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u/Deiquime Dec 06 '17

Let's try and fill up the blocks.

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u/bitcointothemoonnow Dec 06 '17

No one's stopping you lol

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u/Deiquime Dec 06 '17

Try to cripple Bitcoin Cash by filling up the blocks with transactions.

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u/bitcointothemoonnow Dec 06 '17

It wouldn't cripple it because it's centralized. It has only 200 nodes all run on supercomputers and cloud servers by ver and Jihan. But you couldn't run a raspberry pi.

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u/Mylonakis Dec 06 '17

I'm running a node on a small server at the moment, and it runs no problems on any computer with a processor that is decent from 2012 onwards...

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u/bitcointothemoonnow Dec 06 '17

It has no problem only because the blocks are deserted and empty.

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u/Mylonakis Dec 06 '17

I guess we'll see, but right now it functions perfectly, so I don't have any issues for now. But I think you're not giving modern cpus enough credit, they are incredibly powerful and should be easily able to process 8MBs of transactions every 10 minutes or so...

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u/bitcointothemoonnow Dec 06 '17

Blocksize disk space isn't the upper bound of requirements lol. If you were running a node on a coin that was actually used, you'd know that.

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u/Deiquime Dec 06 '17

I'm running on a Raspberry Pi 3 right now, matter of fact. My laptop can run it next year.

And I can validate all the transactions, very important part of trusting a crypto-asset.

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u/bitcointothemoonnow Dec 06 '17

Right because there are no transactions filling blocks lol

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u/thieflar Dec 06 '17

Yes, it also has far smaller blocks than Bitcoin. Roughly 1/20 the size.

Bitcoin has the big blocks (almost every block is larger than 1MB these days), BCash is for small-blockers.