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Re:No Bitcoin-based protocol can handle more than 20M users ... by augustl on Sunday October 08, 2017 @10:40AM (#15428376)
Wow, that's super interesting, I've never heard about something like that proposed before. Same protocol, but layered and sharded, basically.
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Re:No Bitcoin-based protocol can handle more than 20M users ... by Buttes on Sunday October 08, 2017 @10:46AM (#15428400)
The Ethereum guys proposed something like this in a super long rambling document with lots of made up terminology [1]

https://github.com/ethereum/wiki/wiki/Sharding-FAQ

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Re:No Bitcoin-based protocol can handle more than 20M users ... by AluminiumPoint on Sunday October 08, 2017 @10:47AM (#15428403)
Yeah! We can also do 'cross chain atomic swaps'; A trustless tx that allows two chains to agree on a price. Either both sides claim it, or the money is returned to its sender.
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Re:No Bitcoin-based protocol can handle more than 20M users ... by corford on Sunday October 08, 2017 @01:26PM (#15429055)
There are quite a few projects working on "cross-chain" solutions:

https://cosmos.network

https://ark.io

https://omg.omise.co

And more

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Re:No Bitcoin-based protocol can handle more than 20M users ... by NotUsingLinux on Sunday October 08, 2017 @10:45AM (#15428399)
Ethereum sharding?

https://github.com/ethereum/wiki/wiki/Sharding-FAQ

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Re:No Bitcoin-based protocol can handle more than 20M users ... by sudoscript on Sunday October 08, 2017 @10:53AM (#15428425)
Check out Ethereum's Plasma proposal: plasma.io. It's a similar concept. I'd describe it as tree of blockchains with MapReduce for state transitions and merkle trees for proofs.
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