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because if your computer is infected with a botnet
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because if your computer is infected with a botnet
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and 14 out of your 16 gigabytes of RAM are being eaten up,
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and 14 out of your 16 gigabytes of RAM are being eaten up,
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you're probably going to notice it.
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you're probably going to notice it.
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So it was a deliberate design decision in RandomX to use a
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So it was a deliberate design decision in RandomX to use a
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high required amount of RAM for processing.
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high required amount of RAM for processing.
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There's another source of scarcity
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There's another source of scarcity
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that is not necessarily one that you want in a blockchain,
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that is not necessarily one that you want in a blockchain,
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and that is access to layer one.
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and that is access to layer one.
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Bitcoin's 1 megabyte block limit caused a project fork.
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Bitcoin's 1 megabyte block limit caused a project fork.
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There was basically a civil war in Bitcoin over whether or not it was okay
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There was basically a civil war in Bitcoin over whether or not it was okay
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to make blocks stay at this 1 megabyte limit.
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to make blocks stay at this 1 megabyte limit.
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It still rages on to this day. It's still a holy war
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It still rages on to this day. It's still a holy war
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and this is something that Monero has avoided thus far.
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and this is something that Monero has avoided thus far.
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Its solution to this is to use an adaptive block size
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Its solution to this is to use an adaptive block size
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in which the maximum block size of a Monero block is flexible
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in which the maximum block size of a Monero block is flexible
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and it can organically expand or shrink along with demand --
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and it can organically expand or shrink along with demand --
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with, of course, provisions in there
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with, of course, provisions in there
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to prevent the system from getting gamed.
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to prevent the system from getting gamed.
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And there's ongoing research to reduce the transaction size.
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And there's ongoing research to reduce the transaction size.
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There's bulletproofs that went in recently
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There's bulletproofs that went in recently
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