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Subject: [bitcoin-dev] Three Challenges for Scaling Bitcoin
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I will be unable to attend the Scaling Bitcoin conference this weekend, but I
wrote down a few thoughts, to hopefully move us past this block size debate and
onto something more constructive:

    http://blog.sldx.com/three-challenges-for-scaling-bitcoin/

Comments/criticism welcome.

--
Cheers, Bob McElrath

"For every complex problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong."
    -- H. L. Mencken