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Re:Bitcoin's mining difficulty has increased by 41.9% over t... by SolarNet on Monday December 21, 2015 @09:34PM (#10775405)
Well a miner like the one going live is also responsible for managing the transaction volume. So the capacity of Bitcoin to manage many more transactions just went up.
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Re:Bitcoin's mining difficulty has increased by 41.9% over t... by davidgerard on Tuesday December 22, 2015 @08:12AM (#10777521)
No, this is completely incorrect: the transaction rate limit is inherent in the protocol.

You could do it with an increase in the block size, but the Bitcoinsphere has bitterly resisted all attempts to increase the block size.

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