March 2018
Beginner to intermediate
656 pages
20h 9m
English
Content preview from Mastering Blockchain - Second Edition
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Bitcoin-NG
This is another proposal for addressing scalability, throughput, and speed issues in the Bitcoin blockchain. Next Generation (NG) protocol is based on a mechanism of leader election which verifies transactions as soon as they occur, as compared to Bitcoin's protocols, where the time between blocks and block size are the key limitations concerning scalability.