Re: Bitcoin source files attached (scalability questions)

Ah, I see, thanks for the corrections.

Some of the discussion and concern over performance may relate to the eventual size of the P2P node network. How large do you envision it becoming? Tens of nodes? Thousands? Millions?

And for clients, do you think this could scale to be usable for close to 100% of world financial transactions? Or would you see it as mostly being used for some “core” subset of transactions that have special requirements, with other transactions using a different payment system that perhaps is based on Bitcoin?

Hal

Original external source

https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2020/11/26/previously-unpublished-emails-of-satoshi-nakamoto-present-a-new-puzzle
Transcribed from screenshot embedded in CoinDesk's November 26, 2020 article. Original headers preserved: sent 07:20:46 -0800 (PST) = 15:20:46 UTC. Recovered from Hal Finney's personal computer files provided by Fran Finney to journalist Nathaniel Popper in March 2014, subsequently shared with CoinDesk.