Bitcoin With Heterogeneous Block Sizes: A Scaling Proposal
This addresses scalability for Bitcoin users and miners by enabling heterogeneous block sizes, though it appears incremental as it builds on existing block structures.
The authors tackled Bitcoin's scalability problem by proposing a generalization where blocks consist of sub-blocks with increasing sizes, allowing miners and users to choose sizes independently without network disruption, resulting in a flexible compromise between decentralization and transaction throughput.
We propose a bitcoin generalization as a solution to the problem of scalability. The block is redefined as a sequence of sub-blocks of increasing sizes that coexist as different levels of compromise between decentralization and transactions throughput. Miners and users can decide individually the sizes they use without affecting others in the network.