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lightweb | 3 years ago

Think on solving BGP vulnerabilities through micropayments.

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lightweb|3 years ago

Originally, Bitcoin had no limits in place including the block size. That was added later.

The original protocol scales to trillions of transactions per second. The secret is the Merkle tree and the block header. The block headers only take up megabytes and are easy to keep track of and distribute.

Simplified Payment Verification was outlined in the whitepaper.

The protocol is meant to be used between peers, not between users and nodes.