Topic: Which will be the dominating scalable coin? (NEM vs. IOTA vs. Radix vs. EOS...) - page 2. (Read 13608 times)

XtraBytes is also infinitely scalable.

Good point that although pruning is not all that needs to be considered when scaling a cryptocurrency, it is still a good feature to have as far as optimum scalability goes.

PascalCoin V2 will be released next week along with a revised white-paper.

Although this is correct I still think that a scalable coin should also have pruning.

If the blockchain gets to large more and more nodes cannot afford anymore to save the whole blockchain.
This not only leads to centralization but the network would finally also get very slow or even crash as millions of clients cold try to request or send data to very few remaining full nodes at the same time that cannot handle that load anymore.

Pruning != Scalability

Sure, you can chop a hole in the bottom of the bucket to dump some water, but it can still only fill up as fast as your tap.

Pruning allows you to manage the size of the block chain over time, not how many transactions it can process per second.

XtraBytes is also infinitely scalable.

Radix was eMunie. If I remember correctly it was only 1 guy called Dan and he was weird and paranoid wouldn't let anybody else work on development, which is just the antithesis of community and the project pretty much died. There's lots of information on eMunie here.

Everything is good in theory until tested by reality. And none of the solutions of these coins are put in the hard test yet. What matters is when the coin is put to the test, how fast will the devs refine their solutions  to become the perfect scaling solution.

An important aspect for a cryptocurrency to be become big is scalability.
Ethereum recently pumped due to Bitcoins lack of scalability, but the bancor ICO showed that Ethereum also scales poorly.

So the next big thing will probably be a currency that scales well. But which one will be the leading one?

NEM (with catapult), IOTA, Radix and EOS probably will be able to handle thousands of transactions per second.
In my opinion this is worth nothing if there is no pruning to remove old data. However, it is difficult to find information about which of these coins are able to efficiently prune old data.

So an important question this thread could answer is which of them actually scale well enough for mass adoption (by for instance having efficient pruning).

Furthermore, all these coins have different capabilities. EOS is a full Ethereum competitor, NEM can run simple smart contracts and Radix has several applications running on top of it (I did not get into it). Not sure about IOTA. Which of them has in your opinion the best capabilities and how important will this be to become the dominating currency (in market cap)?

... and of course there is still bitcoin. Do you think the lightning network will solve bitcoins scalability problem?
I see the problem that the technology is complicated (you need to keep a payment channel open all the time) might be too late (we need a solution now and not in a year) and in the end all lightning transactions must still be settled on the blockchain which still requires huge blocks for mass adoption.  

Please don't put EOS in the same conversation as Radix/IOTA. End of the day Radix will be King imo.