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Re:This Is the Week Wall Street Went Nuts Over Cryptocurrencies by nordsieck on Friday October 13, 2017 @01:39PM (#15467714) 

  transactions are limited to ~10/s
  [...]
  At high volumes, this will approach the petabyte scale
This is a big reason why many people want to keep the transaction size small. Currently, hard drive size is expanding faster than the block chain.
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Re:This Is the Week Wall Street Went Nuts Over Cryptocurrencies by rothbardrand on Friday October 13, 2017 @02:16PM (#15468041)
MAST is in discussion now and will dramatically reduce transaction sizes (SEgwit already did it too, and segwit is still being deployed).... with MAST bitcoin will be more of a smart contract system, and even very complex transactions will be tiny.
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