Bitcoin cash says Microsoft on chain scaling degrades decentralization pone pone pone pone Microsoft has concluded that so-called layer 2 solutions are necessary for Bitcoin to scale and is collaborating on the technology Microsoft on chain fails to meet capacity needs Oh pom pom pom pom pom pone nope sorry guys no a big nope in a blog post on Monday director of program management at Microsoft's identity division Alex assignments I said that tool a layer to scaling solutions which principally involve the Lightning Network are superior to on chain scaling I've talked about this briefly before Simon Lim writes while some blockchain communities have increased on chain transaction capacity eg block size increases this approach generally degrades the decentralized state of the network and cannot reach the millions of transactions per second the system will generate at world scale he later continues to overcome these technical barriers we are collaborating on a decentralized layer two protocols that run atop these public block chains to achieve a global scale while preserving the attributes of a world-class D ID or decentralized identity system this post marks what is likely Microsoft's most direct a pledge yet on the future of public block chains including you got it a Bitcoin after year of research Microsoft has concluded that on chain scaling doesn't work pom pom pom pone the computer giant's description of on chain scaling options as a degrading decentralization in particular places in an opposition to bitcoin hard forks offering bigger block size specifically Bitcoin cash the fork has long attracted criticism from some of bitcoins earliest proponents with computer scientist Nick Szabo calling the network centralized Socktober tree last year the resource it will now employ to further develop of layer two remains unknown when it comes to the Lightning Network well the Lightning Network and passes a Bitcoin cash node count lightning is growing Bitcoin cash not so much we are humbled and excited to take on such a massive challenge but it also shows it can be accomplished alone Simon continues we're counting on the support and input of our alliance partners members of the decentralized identity foundation and the diverse Microsoft ecosystem of designers policymakers business partners hardware and software builders the Lightning Network has already made considerable advances this year exciting debuting its first maintenance and growing rapidly to incorporate almost 2,000 nodes as of February 13 more than the Bitcoin cash network the highly anticipated layer to technology would serve to make Bitcoin transactions cost fractions of $1 of u.s. dollar sent and complete almost instantaneously well you guys know that I have been a big fan of the Lightning Network I think it's going to fundamentally change many many transaction opportunities as well as the overall ecosystem of Bitcoin how it's going to affect Bitcoin in the metal level don't know just yet but I know that in many ways the Lightning Network is going to change the way that we perceive transactions transaction speeds block sizes and the like for the future yeah I'm certain that there are gonna be many crypto nation people out there that might be saying whoa whoa Peter put the brakes on this whole Bitcoin cash thing but guys the writing is on the wall so I'm gonna throw it right back to you guys in the the comment section below what do you guys think about Microsoft saying that well in essence Bitcoin cash use-case not so good & smash the like button for the original Bitcoin that's right B T C poem poem
