🚨 Satoshi’s “Temporary” 1MB Limit: The Scaling Problem $BTC Still Has in 2026… But $XRP Doesn’t 🔥
In July 2010, Satoshi added a 1MB block size limit as a quick anti-spam safeguard.
At the time blocks were tiny, so 1MB felt huge. He later suggested raising it gradually: “If (blocknumber > 115000) maxblocksize = largerlimit”
After Satoshi disappeared in 2011, changing the rule became nearly impossible. This led to the 2017 Block Size Wars, the Bitcoin Cash fork, and today’s reliance on SegWit + Lightning.
Base layer still caps at low throughput (~3–7 TPS), causing fee spikes in bull runs.
Meanwhile, $XRP Ledger has no such problem** — it delivers 3–5 second finality with ~1,500 TPS capacity and ultra-low stable fees by design.
One early safety line that still limits BTC on-chain scaling… while XRP was built for speed from day one.