How many transactions can fit in a block, with or without SegWit? What other types of data can you put in a block? What is metadata? What is OP_RETURN? What is OpenTimestamps and what are the use cases?

More on OP_RETURN – https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/OP_RETURN
Check out OpenTimestamps here: https://opentimestamps.org/

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20 COMMENTS

  1. Bitcoin Core Bug CVE-2018

    Dubbele spending bug(miners) , upgrade to 16.3V

    Hi Aantonop ,

    Is this Heck in the Bitcoin protocol its self , or in a Wallet?
    And is this a vunerable spot for Bitcoin?

    Greetings Harm ,
    PS: is there a channel for asking these questions?

  2. Ok, so I've been computing since the early 90s. 1400 baud, BBS's, disconnected and changing ISP's every 2 months. So I know a little bit about computers and the Internet. But I even though I took a couple of programming courses some time ago, I found that I have very little talent in that area.
    So all this being said: An idea just popped into my head that is probably very easily shot down by any beginner programmer but I don't know for sure so here it is.
    Is it possible to make some small change to the Bitcoin Blockchain that does not sacrifice security, just enough so that it is on it's own blockchain and then create as many "Bitcoin Blocckchains" as necessary in order to solve the transactions per second problem
    Bitcoin1, Bitcoin2, Bitcoin3, etc….

  3. Interesting about hashing a document and storing the "fingerprint" on blockchain while storing the document elsewhere. I want to know how that helps with tamper-proof though. If the document itself is changed or stolen from its (for example) cloud database, it sounds like there is no proof as to what was on the original document. The only thing known would be that it is not the same thing as originally put on the blockchain. I don't really understand how that is of any benefit to anyone.

  4. Proof of existence, also known as "proof by newspaper" used by kidnappers to prove that someone is still alive up to a given time. Satoshi itself used proof by newspaper for the genesis block. Not completely trustless as the Bitcoin blockchain but still very effective

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  6. I have question about segwit. So is block size now 2-4mb? Or is that Max? All miners do not fill the blocks up all the way? Does that slow down confirmation times?

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