Foundations of Blockchain

Proposed solutions

From the very beginning of 2010, there have been attempts to increase the block size with different proposals. There are even a number of Bitcoin Improvement Proposals (BIP) that keep track of this issue. Some of them are BIP 100 - 103 and BIP 109, and all of them are either in a draft or a rejected state.

One of the initial proposals, BIP 101 by Gavin Andreson, one of the initial developers of the Bitcoin core, suggested increasing the block size to 8 MB and doubling the limit every two years, with the size growing linearly during the two years. Although the proposal gained support from a majority of the miners, it failed to gain an economic majority as it required a hard fork. An alternate Bitcoin client called Bitcoin ...