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		kerkeslager on July 13, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Bitcoin – Potential Network Disruption on July 31s... Surely Hacker News understands exponents enough to see that doubling the size does get us to Visa-like 50k transactions in only 16 doubles.

girst on July 13, 2017 [–]

surely HN understands exponents enough to notice that 1MB * 2^16 = 64GigaBytes.

kerkeslager on July 13, 2017 | [–]

Yes. And how many applications actually have to store the block chain?

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