Are cryptocurrencies ready to handle large number of transactions?

Michalis Kargakis kargakis at protonmail.ch
Mon Dec 25 06:58:36 PST 2017


Not a ready implementation yet but the mimblewimble protocol solves a lot of the scalability issues plagued in other blockchains.

https://scalingbitcoin.org/papers/mimblewimble.pdf
https://github.com/ignopeverell/grin/blob/master/doc/intro.md

> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Re: Are cryptocurrencies ready to handle large number of transactions?
> Local Time: December 25, 2017 3:08 PM
> UTC Time: December 25, 2017 2:08 PM
> From: gmkarl at gmail.com
> To: Georgi Guninski <guninski at guninski.com>
> cypherpunks at lists.cpunks.org
>
> On Mon, Dec 25, 2017 at 8:17 AM Georgi Guninski <guninski at guninski.com> wrote:
>
>> Which cryptocurrencies are ready for large scale?
>> Searching the interwebs and chat suggest decentralized solution will be
>> extremely difficult if possible at all.
>
> I used google and found these.
>
> LN support earlier this year: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1891745.0 (groestlcoin, syscoin, planned litecoin, decred, viacoin)
> Discussion: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1847410.0 (ardor, iota, bottom of first page)
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