Nick White (Celestia) on building the first modular blockchain network (EP.299)
On The Brink with Castle Island
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Is There a Limit to How Big Blocks Can Get?
In the typical blockcan system, you would say that it scales linearly with the number of with the amount of resources of that note. But in this case, rather than being linear, which would be o of n, it is o of the square root of n. So each time, let's say you increase the the size of the block by four times, instead of having tho increase the node requirements by four times,. it's only by the square root of four, which wouldBe two times. It gets smaller and smaller the bigger the block is. And so they that's kind of like a high level way to think about it.
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