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Re: [ANN][DASH] Dash | First Anonymous Coin | Inventor of X11, DGW, Darksend and InstantX
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Sapereaude
on 10/05/2015, 03:50:24 UTC
Sub-Ether's chart of the day.
http://statoshi.info/#/dashboard/file/default.json?panelId=5&fullscreen&edit&from=1399556468856&to=1431092468872
Moore's law is not keeping up with the memory usage as the unspent transaction memory requirement has doubled in 1 year and the cost of memory has only gone down by 20% so once again the scaling problems of bitcoin are showing themselves.



Read more from the man himself ...
http://gavinandresen.ninja/utxo-uhoh
Today, the UTXO database is about 650MiB on disk, 4GB when decompressed into memory. DRAM costs about $10 per GB, so you need to spend about $40 on memory if you want absolute fastest access to the UTXO. Not a big deal.
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'Assuming the UTXO set continues to double and RAM prices continue to drop 20% per year, next year you’ll have to spend about $64. Ten years from now, over $4,000…'

Looks like there's a fork planned to solve this BTC problem at 2016.

What is the solution they are using?