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		the_mitsuhiko on Oct 5, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Some ideas for native Bitcoin apps > That's not true, traffic goes up linearly with the number of transactions. If there are twice as many transactions, twice as much data needs to be sent around in the network. It is also linear in the number of full nodes running - but most users do not run a full node. How does that make sense in a peer to peer environment?

Animats on Oct 5, 2014 [–]

Traffic is number of transactions times number of full nodes. That's why there's a scaling problem.

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