# kaal:claim:3411897-024

**Claim.** The data mining that produces scarcity in existing blockchains also slows creation, so high speed transactions cannot be achieved for the foreseeable future without a different consensus design.

**Type.** failure  **Support.** argued

**Holds when.**

- proof of work style mining that manufactures scarcity

**Source quote.**

> Currently, the data mining required to provide scarcity also slows creation so that high speed transactions cannot be achieved for the foreseeable future.

**From.** Wulf A. Kaal, *Decentralization - Past, Present, and Future* (2019), Part 2: The Present, Decentralization Neutralizers, page 34

**Cite as.** Wulf A. Kaal, Decentralization - Past, Present, and Future (2019). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3411897

**Verify.** sha256 of source PDF `82f0aea026b3e3a526ec51bc073b3b864dc06cd9083ff9c54c550037045edaa9` at https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wulfkaal/Academic-Papers/main/papers/pdf/Kaal%20-%202019%20-%20Decentralization%20-%20Past%2C%20Present%2C%20and%20Future.pdf

**Failure mode.** scarcity-throughput-tradeoff  (family: scalability-and-throughput-limit)

**Topics.** consensus-and-security, blockchain

**Keywords.** consensus, mining, scalability, blockchain-trilemma

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