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Technical deep dives, announcements, and research from the Bitcoin Unlimited community.
11 articles
Subchains: A Technique to Scale Bitcoin and Improve the User Experience
A technique using nested weak blocks to scale Bitcoin on-chain while giving users faster, incremental confirmation of their transactions.
The "Excessive-Block" Gate: How a Bitcoin Unlimited Node Deals With Large Blocks
An exploration of how Bitcoin Unlimited nodes handle blocks that exceed the configured excessive block size parameter.
Towards Massive On-Chain Scaling: Block Propagation Results With Xthin (Part 5)
Final results and conclusions from the Xthin block propagation experiments, demonstrating the feasibility of large-scale on-chain scaling.
Towards Massive On-Chain Scaling: Block Propagation Results With Xthin (Part 4)
Analysis of Xthin performance under various block sizes and network latency conditions, with implications for scaling.
Towards Massive On-Chain Scaling: Block Propagation Results With Xthin (Part 3)
Further improvements to the Xthin protocol and comprehensive testing results from the Bitcoin Unlimited network.
Towards Massive On-Chain Scaling: Block Propagation Results With Xthin (Part 2)
Continued analysis of Xthin protocol performance showing compression ratios and propagation speeds across different network conditions.
Towards Massive On-Chain Scaling: Presenting Our Block Propagation Results with Xthin
Initial results from block propagation experiments using the Xthin protocol, demonstrating significant improvements in block transmission efficiency.
A Transaction Fee Market Exists Without a Block Size Limit
This paper shows how a rational Bitcoin miner charges transaction fees even without a protocol-enforced block size limit, due to the orphaning risk of larger blocks.
Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System
The original Bitcoin whitepaper describing a purely peer-to-peer version of electronic cash that allows online payments without a trusted third party.
An Examination of Single-Transaction Blocks and Their Effect on Network Throughput and Block Size
An empirical analysis of coinbase-only blocks and their effect on network throughput and effective block size.
Bitcoin Unlimited: Articles of Federation
The founding document of the Bitcoin Unlimited project, describing its vision of Bitcoin as a worldwide public good and its governance.