- Solo Bitcoin Miner Solves One Full Valid Block as BTC Price Pushes for Gains https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/solo-bitcoin-miner-solves-one-182412198.html 11 comments cryptocurrency
- Why are Bitcoin Cash blocks not full? https://www.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/6rbii5/why_are_bitcoin_cash_blocks_not_full/ 15 comments btc
- Can anyone name a single coin other than Bitcoin that has full blocks all the time? https://www.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/6m72nt/can_anyone_name_a_single_coin_other_than_bitcoin/ 49 comments btc
- Is Antpool Still Delaying Full Bitcoin Network Blocks? http://themerkle.com/is-antpool-still-delaying-full-bitcoin-network-blocks/ 2 comments btc
- Blocks are full, right? - Bitcoin blockchain SQL/Python playground https://blockbin.com/blog 6 comments btc
- Somehow the blatantly obvious is now news: Full blocks delayed Bitcoin adoption https://cryptonews.com.au/story/roger-ver-says-full-blocks-have-limited-bitcoin-adoption-83669 44 comments btc
- If Bitcoin Cash keeps the block size such that blocks are not full than that means the supply (block space) is perceived as infinite. https://twitter.com/torusJKL/status/942433101862572032 33 comments btc
- Bitcoin is upgrading to 2MB blocks (SegWit2X | UpgradeBitcoin.com) - "Blocks are full, the Bitcoin network cannot grow any further without a protocol upgrade. It's time folks." https://upgradebitcoin.com/ 10 comments btc
- Bitcoin would likely already be over $10,000 each if not for the economic ignorance of Core’s full block policy. https://twitter.com/rogerkver/status/921761513060253697 114 comments btc
- One of my favorite websites no longer accepts Bitcoin, and only accepts an altcoin. (Thanks to Blockstream's full block policy) https://www.bitcart.io 57 comments btc
- Roger Ver on Twitter: "The network affect of money is even stronger than that of social networks. If Bitcoin continues to have full blocks..........." https://twitter.com/rogerkver/status/871746327662743553 11 comments btc
- The UTXO set grows 8 times slower than the Bitcoin blockchain (chart). Full node ops shouldn't worry about block size increase. https://twitter.com/nikzh/status/848879966729240576 12 comments btc
- Brian Armstrong: "Bitcoin is going to need some Uber style "surge pricing!" on transaction fees if these full blocks keep up. Should be interesting." https://twitter.com/brian_armstrong/status/726849650175541248 21 comments btc
- Theymos (2010): "In the future most people will run Bitcoin in a "simple" mode that doesn't require downloading full blocks or transactions. At that point MAX_BLOCK_SIZE can be increased a lot." https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1314.msg15143#msg15143 27 comments btc
- How full are Bitcoin blocks? Here is a very simple tool I made on Github that checks the last 60 blocks in the Blockchain and shows you a big number http://fullblocks.github.io/ 17 comments btc
- One 2017 image that sums up the damage that has been done to Bitcoin by full blocks and congested mempool (hint: over $10b value transferred to altcoins by May 2017 already) https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1600/0*1EYMMS99PKlMioGl. 9 comments btc
- BTC holders - Segwit2X is not happening today. Blocks are going to be full for the foreseeable future. BTC is near an ATH. Perfect time to switch over to scalable Bitcoin by trading into BitcoinCash. https://twitter.com/WalterRothbard/status/931516516985704448 111 comments btc
- The Bitcoin Block Clock: A not-boring RPi2 full node, network visualizer, and BTC piggy bank! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78u8EQtIXMY 20 comments raspberry_pi
- wumpus had an interesting slip on #bitcoin-dev: answering about how much the blockchain size increase in a month: 'given that up to 1 MB is added, on average, every 10 minutes, the worst case is easy to compute. The actual growth is a bit smaller as not all blocks are full.' http://bitcoinstats.com/irc/bitcoin-dev/logs/2016/02/08 7 comments btc
- Luke Dashjr: "If you have trouble affording a full node with 1 MB blocks, you have no business supporting a block size increase to 2-4 MB (Segwit)."; Tom Harding: "Suppose I've never been able to afford a full node, but I'm capable of understanding #bitcoin and observing the uptake by society." https://twitter.com/dgenr818/status/853247077391794176 24 comments btc
- Bitcoin blocks full right now and onchain fee is still only $0.25. I just made onchain Segwit transaction. It cost only 420 sats fee. Segwit and Lightning adoption has truly helped Bitcoin scale flawlessly https://mempool.space/ 13 comments cryptocurrency
- Bitcoin Cash meetups have now come to Singapore! (By someone who used to be a small blocker until the full blocks damaged his own use of Bitcoin) https://www.meetup.com/Singapore-Bitcoin-Cash-Meetup/events/252654928/ 13 comments btc
- Roger Ver: "@JihanWu's prediction is coming true. Due to full blocks and high fees Bitcoin now has its lowest market share ever" https://twitter.com/rogerkver/status/756540394905755652 68 comments btc
- Greg Maxwell denying the fact the Satoshi Designed Bitcoin to never have constantly full blocks https://www.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/4m2tdg/greg_maxwell_denying_the_fact_the_satoshi/ 426 comments btc
- Andrew Stone: While ideas like BIP101 require us to project far into the future, and BIP100 puts voting solely in the hands of miners, Bitcoin Unlimited puts "voting" in the hands of every full node -- the max block size emerges from the "excessive" settings https://forum.bitcoin.com/ama-ask-me-anything/i-am-andrew-stone-of-bitcoin-unlimited-ama-t3420.html 7 comments btc
- "2018 is the year we bring Bitcoin to its full potential. BCH will have more security and no more issues with limits on what it can achieve. Op_Codes enabled Block size not constrained Time to bring it to the world" https://twitter.com/ProfFaustus/status/939786777123889153 97 comments btc
- High fees, full blocks, unpredictable wait times, poor user experience, people leaving bitcoin for alts, and Greg Maxwell says he thinks bitcoin is excellent this way. There should be no doubt he wants only harm for bitcoin. https://www.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/6fe9v3/gavin_andresen_on_twitter_making_greg_a_committer/dihwfz0 70 comments btc
- Decentralizing the Block Size Limit Bitcoin’s full node network itself, with special software, will find the most optimal block size limit via emergent consensus. https://medium.com/@solex1/decentralizing-the-block-size-limit-1fe8f86730c#.yv9b2q44l 86 comments btc
- "I see a lot of #Bitcoin maximalist saying that $ETH is dying from a clogged network. What? I thought that high fees, long confirmation times, and full blocks are a good thing???" https://twitter.com/Don_wonton/status/1169033272791371777 59 comments btc
- Bitcoin on Twitter: "BTC's block size has been constrained to a mere 1MB so anyone can afford to run a node, but users are expected to transact on #LightningNetwork which requires multiple hard drives and an always-online full node that causes users to lose all their money if it goes offline. Hmmm" https://twitter.com/Bitcoin/status/1100857855396200448 97 comments btc
- Just a few of the books I read cover to cover that helped me appreciate Bitcoin long before the maximalists joined the project and derailed it with their economic quackery of full blocks and high fees being a good thing. https://www.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/cp9ows/just_a_few_of_the_books_i_read_cover_to_cover/ 91 comments btc
- It looks block propagation on Bitcoin's network has hit an efficiency floor of 1-2 seconds. Delay may no longer be the scaling bottleneck, but we'll have to see how this holds up when blocks are consistently full to get a better measurement. • r/Bitcoin https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/8lcthu/it_looks_block_propagation_on_bitcoins_network/ 6 comments btc
- It’s mind boggling to hear people say Bitcoin blocks should be so small that you can run full nodes on tiny hard drives to self-validate txs but in the same vein think $100 tx fees are okay. I highly doubt these same people are even validating their own txs w/such high fees. https://twitter.com/davidshares/status/944193438664282114 33 comments btc
- Jack Dorsey's First Move As Ex-CEO Of Twitter, and Full-Time CEO Of Block: Cash App Users Can Now Give Bitcoin Or Stocks as a Gift... https://cryptoglobalpress.blogspot.com/2021/12/jack-dorseys-first-move-as-ex-ceo-of.html 47 comments cryptocurrency
- Transaction fees on BTC are too high for it to be useful in payments, and the blocks are too full for reliable confirmations. These are facts. But according to BTC maxis, [@Bitcoin is] a scammer and a villain and a fraud for pointing these facts out. https://twitter.com/Bitcoin/status/1119779419185459200 30 comments btc
- Roger Ver on Twitter: "Many "Core" supporters continue to ignore Bitcoin’s declining market share due to full blocks and the horrible user experience they create." https://twitter.com/rogerkver/status/881736727974432768 23 comments btc
- G. Andresen: "Events of the last 3yrs make me certain that there will be a healthy fee mkt even if blocks aren't full. And people/businesses will switch to a lower-cost chain." Dec 16, 2017 Gavin was lead Bitcoin developer in the early years... 2010-2014 https://twitter.com/gavinandresen/status/942007642414813185 6 comments btc
- I have a website where I sell cold-storage devices (crypto piggybanks), because of the full blocks I've been forced to remove legacy Bitcoin support from my website. Bitcoin Cash still works just fine though. http://www.keyois.com/ 5 comments btc
- "Bitcoin was the first true Distributed Server Processing system allowing for smart contracts and an immutable registry of settlement. This role moved to #Ethereum when the block cap stopped use, but the full uses for #Bitcoin are now available again in Bitcoin Cash"~Dr. Craig S. Wright https://twitter.com/ProfFaustus/status/923563448834895873 2 comments btc
- Since June, the number of Bitcoin transactions has *decreased*. From Feb-June 2017, blocks were MORE full than they are now. Ironically, Blockstream got their greatest increase in "free block space" by people simply ceasing to make transactions due to full blocks and high fees. http://segwit.party/charts/# 88 comments btc