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With cryptocurrencies and blockchain-based networks being increasingly used for more and more applications, a fundamental issue is now being noticed; scalability. In this paper, we conduct what we believe the first long-term assessment of the two largest blockchain-based networks; Bitcoin and Ethereum. Using historic data, we model how their growth could be over the next three years and proposed a model, a temporal blockchain, to reduce the network size and increase scalability.
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Dennis, R., Disso, J.P. (2019). An Analysis into the Scalability of Bitcoin and Ethereum. In: Yang, XS., Sherratt, S., Dey, N., Joshi, A. (eds) Third International Congress on Information and Communication Technology. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 797. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-1165-9_57
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