Bitcoin Classic

  

Bitcoin is a hot product...the heat of which is ironically causing it some problems. The more people that use Bitcoin, the longer transactions take. It’s like a bank that got super popular, so the lines got longer and longer and longer. Time is money, so something had to be done.

In 2016, Bitcoin Classic was proposed, which would double the size of blocks, which would double the number of Bitcoin transactions that could be processed per second. However, Bitcoin Classic never quite caught on in the face of other alternatives.

See Bitcoin Cash to learn about a surviving solution to the Bitcoin balloon problem.

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