On Friday, 14 July 2017 at 14:23:49 UTC, rikki cattermole wrote:
On 14/07/2017 3:17 PM, Vitor Rozsas wrote:
On Friday, 14 July 2017 at 14:10:29 UTC, Vitor Rozsas wrote:
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A transaction would simply change the owner of the cents and
not create any message in the database.
Change the owner by changing the values (owner) of the keys
(cents) being transferred.
Blockchains work by making the entire history available to be
verified and computed against. This is entirely its selling
point.
So no, a block chain can never be fixed sized.
After all, how do you know that X owns the coin and not just
some random node trying to corrupt and steal every bodies coins?
But it's so expensive... Soon, bitcoin will have a whole terabyte
to be downloaded... So, no deal?
That's sad.
