Quote from: Carlton Banks on December 20, 2019, 08:49:47 AM

Quote from: Wind_FURY on December 19, 2019, 08:45:17 AM

Define "scaling" in Bitcoin. I believe the word is used around the forum without the proper context. Is simply increasing the transaction throughput in Bitcoin, scaling?

This^^^

If the word "scaling" is misused to mean the same thing as "throughput", it's easy to pose as a helpful person recommending throughput increases as "the" solution. The problem being, that only increasing the throughput actually hurts the strength (i.e. the decntralized nature) of the Bitcoin network, and so mysteriously helpful people are always hanging around the Bitcoin community incessantly suggesting this bad idea Roll Eyes

@squatter gets it exactly right here:

Quote from: squatter on December 19, 2019, 09:03:49 PM

Quote from: Khaos77 on December 18, 2019, 11:58:12 PM

The only ways to increase ONCHAIN Scaling for a single blockchain.
1. Increase BlockSize
2. Faster BlockSpeed
3. Compressing More Transactions into a given blocksize

The first two options only increase throughput. They don't address the system's ability to handle that throughput.

According to the Dictionary on Google

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scal·a·bil·i·ty
/ˌskāləˈbilədē/
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noun
noun: scalability; noun: scaleability

   the capacity to be changed in size or scale.
   "scalability of the service has not been an issue"
   the ability of a computing process to be used or produced in a range of capabilities.
   "the key is the scalability of the software"

Even says change in size, ie: Blocksize
Which makes you wonder why delusional people claim block size has nothing to do with scaling. Tongue

Those delusional people are either stupid like windfury or politically motivated such as carltonbanks.