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Re:Many Bitcoin Miners Are at Risk of Turning Unprofitable by mikepurvis on Wednesday April 18, 2018 @09:39AM (#16867265)
Really? Isn't there an upper limit in terms of transactions per time period?
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Re:Many Bitcoin Miners Are at Risk of Turning Unprofitable by argo_ on Wednesday April 18, 2018 @09:45AM (#16867316)
The scalabity problem was partly solved by the introduction of the Lightning Network in the ecosystem https://lightning.network/
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Re:Many Bitcoin Miners Are at Risk of Turning Unprofitable by Klathmon on Wednesday April 18, 2018 @09:41AM (#16867288)
As Lightning Network ramps up, and if it is able to get a significant amount of usage, the upper limit in terms of transactions per time period is basically infinite.

Without Lightning then yes the amount of transactions-per-time-period is very limited.

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