Scaling

All blockchain protocols each node stores the entire state (account balances, contract code and storage, etc.) and processes all transactions. This provides a large amount of security, but greatly limits scalability: a blockchain cannot process more transactions than a single node can. In large part because of this, Bitcoin is limited to ~3–7 transactions per second, Ethereum to 7–15, etc.

Methods of Scaling

• bloxroute
• layer-1-scaling
• layer-2-scaling

Musings

• Do layer-1 and layer-2 techniques remove ACID gaurentees?