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Re: Bitcoin can replace the credit card today
by
zureman90
on 11/03/2014, 15:36:09 UTC
The blockchain is already 15 GiB. Bitcoin can't replace credit cards if we don't solve this problem.

Read Satoshi's original paper, chapter 7:

https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf

Explains how to prune the blockchain, to about 5MB/year. (removing transaction hashes, only keeping the merkle root hash in the end)
Now we just have to wait for devs to implement it!

Bandwidth is another thing.. Come-from-beyond has a good point, but if internet speeds keep rising, I personally think by the time BTC gets to 10000transactions/s this will be high enough.
A lot of home connections are already able to easily keep up with that speed.