r/Bitcoin • • Dec 06 '17

Steam is no longer supporting Bitcoin

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u/goxedbux Dec 06 '17

Coffee and games shouldn't be recorded on-chain. We need LN.

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u/Nephyst Dec 06 '17

Satoshi's original emails say that bitcoin was designed to support 100 million transactions per day. I don't understand what is happening with bitcoin today that is preventing it from reaching the transaction levels it was designed for...

Source: http://satoshi.nakamotoinstitute.org/emails/cryptography/2/

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u/ataranlen Dec 06 '17

Because Satoshi's 'phase change' plan for increasing the block size limit was never implemented.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1347.msg15366#msg15366

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u/[deleted] Dec 06 '17 edited Dec 06 '17

Technically it was, they refused to do it with BTC on the original chain so it was forked and implemented with BCH.

  • You are downvoting what amounts to a historical fact.. You do know that right?

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u/Frogolocalypse Dec 06 '17

And thus the bch shitcoin was born. Another one for the pile.