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Annual report from Bitcoin SVâs The Bitcoin Association, claims BSV now rivals VISA for transactions per second, and offers BSV miners âbetter returnsâ than BTC.
The Bitcoin Association, which promotes Bitcoin SV, says the BSV network now rivals credit card processor VISA in terms of transactions per second. It also claims BSV transaction processors (miners) receive âbetter returnsâ than on BTC.
In its first annual report, the Bitcoin Association (BA) said the Bitcoin SVÂ scaling test network had âconsistently sustained 1,300 transactions per second for a prolonged period, in addition to handling a peak load of 6,400 transactions per secondâ
âTo put the transaction capacity in perspective, the VISA network, which has long been viewed as the gold-standard for payment processors, handles an average of 1,700 transactions per second.â
It said the test network has processed blocks of almost 2GB in size, containing 7.877 million transactions.
Bitcoin SV and Bitcoin Cash emerged out of the scaling debate over Bitcoin â which centered around claims the BTC networkâs inability to process more than a handful of transactions per second meant it could not achieve mainstream adoption. BCH and BSV both pursued bigger block sizes as a way to scale.
First annual report
The annual report covers the period February 2019 to February 2020 and makes some bold claims, including that Bitcoin SV offers better transaction fee returns for miners than its rivals:
âBitcoin SV is emerging as the most profitable Bitcoin network for transaction processors (miners) to be working on, offering better returns than BTC on the majority of days from September 2019 to February 2020.â
However, Messari put Bitcoin SV's transaction fees over the past 24 hours at just $255 while Bitcoin raked in $214,199 in transaction fees. Itâs unclear in the report how BA arrived at its conclusion on fees.Â
The report cites data showing transactions grew to almost 600,000 a day by February, which was considerably higher than BTC. Critics however have argued much of the transaction volume on BSV is âbusy workâ from apps writing weather or crypto price data to the blockchain.
The report said the average block size in February was 2MB, which is double the 1.05MB size for BTC and twenty times that of BCH's 0.10. Each BSV block processed an average of 4127 transactions.
The Association now has 1200 members, including more than 300 âApplications or Servicesâ and more than 100 Developers. The top five countries for members are China, USA, UK, Canada and Australia.
There are around 400 "known ventures and projects " being built on BSV, and 250 companies and services and said to support the blockchain
The report also notes:
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Coinstorage CEO Brendan Lee was hired to develop a formal Bitcoin SV training curriculum for release this year.
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The association and developers nChain have made a "major investment" in the Bitcoin SV Wiki, which is both a developer resource and a way to "combat the misinformation surrounding Bitcoin that is online and in media". The introduction starts off by claiming: "Bitcoin is a peer to peer electronic cash system created by Dr. Craig Wright under the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto.â
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Association president Jimmy Nguyen met with ârepresentatives of U.S. government agencies and lawmakers." in Washington DC to discuss how to "build a more lawful and regulation-friendly business ecosystem, while also encouraging and facilitating innovation in both digital currency and blockchain technologies." Nguyen and nChain Chief Scientist Wright have provided commentary to draft legislation about digital currencies.
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BSV âDevConâ events planned for San Francisco and Shanghai this year are on hold due to the pandemic.
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The Association has hired a full time PR professional to secure media coverage.
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The major aims for 2020 are to âposition Bitcoin SV as 'the' blockchain for businessâ and to further develop the Bitcoin SV ecosystem.
Bitcoin SV was created in a controversial hard fork in November 2018, after the project split from Bitcoin Cash. Led by Wright, who controversially claims to have invented Bitcoin, the project has a relatively small but devoted community.
BA president Jimmy Nguyen, who was recently subpeonened via Twitter in the Craig Wright/Ira Kleiman court case, wrote in his introduction it had "been a big year for the original Bitcoin".
"As excitement for the âSatoshi Visionâ has rapidly grown, our Association has expanded its remit - and the global team required to support that - as we accelerate our efforts to increase the adoption of Bitcoin SV.â
The annual report ended with a thank you to BSV's billionaire benefactor Calvin Ayre for bankrolling the entire operation. âWe could not do our work without Calvinâs support and his belief in Bitcoin Satoshi Vision,â it said.
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