RE: The Benefits Of Hive Flying Under The Radar

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I just referred to Hive being 'under the radar' in a comment. The platform is over 6 years old and has had lots of development, so when will it be ready for the masses? Would it break if millions tried to sign up? I expect there would be issues in creating that many accounts, but could the witnesses handle 100x the traffic? Suppose some major Twitter account said 'I am off to this Hive thing. See you there'? Having been here a long time it is frustrating. I am just producing my latest #BritList and the number of active people has dropped again. We are not even managing to keep people who have signed up. I don't have the answers for how to fix that. Not sure who does...

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It isnt something like the blockchain and how much traffic it can handle. The quetion is what would happen to something like HBD since it doesnt have a lot of resiliency right now.

That is just one area that we need to work on.

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I hope people are working out how it can scale up and preparing in case we do get an influx.

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HF26 brought a lot of optimizations in the consensus code. Now nodes handle 2MB blocks just fine, although we should still test edge cases to be extra sure (currently witnesses only allow 64kB blocks). While there is still a lot that can be done there, the main problem we still have is in the amount of data in essential second layer services like account history, HAF and Hivemind. I won't go into technical details here but current state of those databases requires a lot of fast storage space. Thankfully we already know how to approach the problem, it just takes time.

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I'm sure there will be challenges. I develop other types of code and I don't envy you working on the blockchain. I have met a few of the team and I have confidence we are in a good place.

!BEER

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