Operation Data Blast shows Bitcoin SV’s power

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On Sunday, thanks to the recent Quasar upgrade on Bitcoin SV (BSV) that raised the block cap to 2 gigabytes (GB), BSV enthusiasts conducted a large initiative to upload data to the blockchain. Not only was it successful, but it reiterated the fact that on-chain scaling of an order of magnitude larger than anyone thought possible on a blockchain is possible and sustainable.

Operation Data Blast, as the event was called, brought “hundreds of Bitcoin Society members” together to “upload meaningful media onto Bitcoin’s public blockchain.” The activity is still underway, as of this writing, and is expected to last through “Monday lunchtime in Asia Pacific.” By providing a large window, BSV and crypto enthusiasts from around the world have an opportunity to participate.

According to Dr. Roy Murphy, who helped organize the event, “Bitcoin isn’t where it should be after a decade. Being usurped by various entities with nefarious intent has created forks of the original protocol and the carefully orchestrated manipulation by these bad actors have destroyed many of the key tenets of Bitcoin, whilst coercing bucket-shop crypto exchanges to capture the trading Tickers of Bitcoin (XBT and BTC) by centrally governed entities whose objective is to command and hobble the Bitcoin protocol via the hostile takeover of protocol development.”

He adds, “With this in mind, ‘Operation Data Blast’ is the swan song, a last hurrah to those who spent so much time and effort into diminishing the integrity and genius of Satoshi Nakamoto’s creation. It’s giving ‘the bird’ to those who restricted Bitcoin to 1MB [megabyte] blocks, servicing a paltry 7 transactions per second to line the pockets of those interests whose only wish was corruption, anonymity, control, destruction and power.”

If anyone expected the large data upload to be a burden for the BSV blockchain (and there were definitely some BTC shills counting on it), they were greatly disappointed it. On the evening of July 28, as pointed out by Derek Moore on Twitter, “Bitcoin SV produced 4 ~250 MB blocks and a plethora of big blocks today during a User-Activated Stress Test (UAST) during which valuable data was archived on-chain, totaling about 2.5 GB of multimedia & hypermedia content.”

The Quasar upgrade on BSV was nothing short of a huge success. When the Large Hadron Collider was preparing to slam two particles together in September 2008, many people thought the world was going to come to an end. When BSV announced it would be raising the block cap to 2GB, many people that the crypto world was going to come to an end. Just like CERN proved them wrong in 2008, BSV has proved everyone wrong in 2019.

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