<p>If you consider that Bitcoin currently does 2000 transactions each 10 minutes, you'll need blocks 600 times bigger, or more-or-less 1.2 GB each. Now you need bandwidth sufficient for that peer to transmit 9.6 GB each 10 minutes (1.2 GB * 8 peers -- I have no idea of what you meant by "necessary" bandwidth).</p>

<p>That's doable if you only have one miner in the entire network.</p>

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<p>If the Bitcoin blockchain would support 2000 transactions per second, how big would the blocks need to be (with segwit at 100% lets say), and most importantly, how much bandwidth would be necessary for a miner to propagate the blocks to 8 peers?</p>

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The very question is, "Bitcoin can be support the 2000 transactions per second?" so I think to exist other component work on bitcoin for improving transaction speed
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How much bandwidth needed for bitcoin bigger blocks
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# How much bandwidth needed for bitcoin bigger blocks

(Asked by: username_0 on 2019-09-10)

If the Bitcoin blockchain would support 2000 transactions per second, how big would the blocks need to be (with segwit at 100% lets say), and most importantly, how much bandwidth would be necessary for a miner to propagate the blocks to 8 peers?

**Tags:** blocksize, block-size-increase, bandwidth

> **Comments:**
> **username_1**: The very question is, "Bitcoin can be support the 2000 transactions per second?" so I think to exist other component work on bitcoin for improving transaction speed  

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### Answer by username_2 on 2019-09-10. Score: 1

If you consider that Bitcoin currently does 2000 transactions each 10 minutes, you'll need blocks 600 times bigger, or more-or-less 1.2 GB each. Now you need bandwidth sufficient for that peer to transmit 9.6 GB each 10 minutes (1.2 GB \* 8 peers -- I have no idea of what you meant by "necessary" bandwidth).

That's doable if you only have one miner in the entire network.


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