Altcoin Bitcoin Cash faced fresh criticism this week after one of its lead developers appeared to admit its network was unable to process its larger blocks.
In the response, the developer suggested a BCH node would not be able to process a block of transactions 2 megabytes or larger.
Séchet is the lead developer of Bitcoin ABC, the first incarnation of the Bitcoin Cash network client.
Large blocks would make nodes "Trip over themselves".
"Sure or we can mine large block, so we move the problem from the mempool to indexing node that fill trip over themselves bsv style as they are not optimized to handle 100x the usual demand. Or we can solve the problem rather than trading it against another," the response reads.
Larger blocks were a central tenet of BCH when it came into being in 2017.
Its main proponent, Roger Ver, frequently champions bigger blocks as a cure-all for capacity problems which have faced Bitcoin in the past.
"No big deal. Just the main developer for #bitcoincash saying it can't currently handle bigger than 2MB blocks," Blockstream engineer Grubles commented retweeting Séchet's post.
Others advised caution, noting Séchet had not specifically stated the bigger blocks narrative was redundant.
Controversial from the outset, an ongoing war between the coin and its hard fork, Bitcoin Cash SV, continues.
Bitcoin Cash Can't Mine Blocks Bigger Than 2MB, Lead Dev Suggests
Published on Sep 3, 2019
by Cointele | Published on Coinage
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