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A comment on Bitcoin – Potential Network Disruption on July 31st. Parent comment

Re:Bitcoin – Potential Network Disruption on July 31st by kerkeslager on Thursday July 13, 2017 @02:59PM (#14764118)
Surely Hacker News understands exponents enough to see that doubling the size does get us to Visa-like 50k transactions in only 16 doubles.
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Re:Bitcoin – Potential Network Disruption on July 31st by girst on Thursday July 13, 2017 @03:11PM (#14764242)
surely HN understands exponents enough to notice that 1MB * 2^16 = 64GigaBytes.
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Re:Bitcoin – Potential Network Disruption on July 31st by kerkeslager on Thursday July 13, 2017 @03:54PM (#14764609)
Yes. And how many applications actually have to store the block chain?
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