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#173 – Nic Carter: Bitcoin Core Values, Layered Scaling, and Blocksize Debates

Lex Fridman Podcast

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The Small Blocker Controversy

A lot of people wanted Bitcoin to be visa scale. To have blocks sufficiently large, you could accommodate a visa level scale of transactions. The small blockers claim this would overwhelm the ability of any regular person to ingest that data and stay current at the state of the ledger.

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