The Limits to Blockchain Scalability, By Vitalik Buterin

"For a blockchain to be decentralized, it's crucially important for regular users to be able to run a node, and to have a culture where running nodes is a common activity."

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This weeks read we're exploring the limits of scalability to blockchains and why those limits exist. 

What are the tradeoffs for increasing scale? Transactions per second? Lowering fees? Everything has a tradeoff and that's what we're going to be exploring this readthrough.

 

Original article: https://vitalik.ca/general/2021/05/23/scaling.html#its-crucial-for-blockchain-decentralization-for-regular-users-to-be-able-to-run-a-node