Microsoft Windows and other computer operating systems manage hard drive space by dividing it into equally-sized units called clusters or blocks. Over time, however, a drive's block structure becomes ...

All transactions made with Bitcoin are recorded into a blockchain block, the size of which is 1 MB. Initially, there was no limit, but as Bitcoin’s technology spread into the public, there were a ...

When you really try to nail down what makes a cryptocurrency like Bitcoin really Bitcoin, the more technical you get, the closer you are to discussing block size. A block is really a set of data, and ...

I've been looking all over the place, for an answer to this question. Does anyone know, for sure, how this functions?<BR><BR>In ESX 3, when you format a SAN LUN to VMFS, and set the block size, is ...

I have a High Poin Rocket RAID 1520 with 2 ATA150 160Gb 8M disks. I whish to have a good performance so I plan to install a Raid0 array. To do this I must chose a Block size for the array (To chose ...

The Bitcoin debate of the year has been about how the blockchain block size matters. Whether to increase block size, how to do it, and when to do it, everyone seems to have an opinion. Now, Coinbase ...

The block-size limit debate has taken a turn now that some of Bitcoin’s biggest mining pools are publicly endorsing BIP 100 (Bitcoin Improvement Proposal 100) instead of backing a Bitcoin XT ...

in the technical realm, predominantly relating to the increased propagation time of larger blocks, and the level of mining centralization. Over the past year, however, the same debate mostly moved ...

Martin Hagelstrom is a bitcoin enthusiast and project executive and consultant working on IT projects at IBM. In this opinion piece, Hagelstrom argues that the bitcoin community's emphasis on block ...