Post
Topic
Board Speculation
Re: Gold collapsing. Bitcoin UP.
by
smooth
on 01/07/2015, 00:04:40 UTC
absolutely.  look here.  guys reporting their bitcoind shut down from memory overload.  that sucks:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/3bmb5r/stress_test_in_full_effect/csniofb

A design which forces every consensus making node to approve every transaction is stoopid. Any half brained engineer could realize this if they spent some time thinking about the issues.

It is, only if and when another design that accomplishes decentralized consensus without that requirement is published and peer reviewed.