Can one consumer-verifiable chain absorb unlimited settlement demand? — THE DESK
R04 · JUNCTION · LAYER 1 OF 15 (DERIVED)Bitcoin’s Limit
Can Bitcoin hold everyone at once?
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THE REGISTERED QUESTION
Can one consumer-verifiable chain absorb unlimited settlement demand?
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FALSIFIABLE CLAIM
Preserving broadly consumer-verifiable Bitcoin base-layer operation imposes finite settlement capacity; materially increasing base-layer throughput increases storage, bandwidth, validation, or operational burden.
STRENGTHENS IF
Node-resource requirements rise with throughput and meaningful independent verification remains bounded.
FRAMEWORK ANCHOR
Ch. 12, Bitcoin’s Security Assumption and The Limit
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OBJ-BITCOIN-VALUE-PROPOSITION-MAP · THE BITCOIN VALUE PROPOSITION MAPOBJ-THE-LIMIT · THE LIMITBOUND METRICS · 2
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M-BTC-BLOCK-UTILBitcoin block-weight utilizationOBSERVED %M-BTC-NODE-RESOURCEBitcoin node resource burdenOBSERVED GB / Mbps / hours
ANSWER NO IF
Consumer-scale verification expands materially with throughput without sacrificing the assumed verification properties.