Facts you have to know about on-chain and off-chain scaling👇🏻

In fact, the expansion plan is a kind of patch thinking. If the facilities of the chain are sufficient to support the development requirements of the ecology from the beginning, there will be no situation where the expansion plan becomes dominant or even becomes mainstream (of course, it is a bit nonsense to say this now)

Depending on the camp, there are two types of expansion plans: on-chain expansion and off-chain expansion🔺

Let’s talk about on-chain expansion first, which means making changes to the underlying facilities of your own chain, such as changing the block capacity, block generation speed, etc. The early #BTC hard fork battle involved on-chain expansion. The community hoped to vote to expand the block capacity to support the growing transaction scale of the network.

Under the checks and balances of various complex factors, the large block solution was not chosen by the mainstream groups at that time and today (it is not that on-chain expansion is not good, but that this step in the development stage is indeed too large an adjustment)

The various $ETH series Rollup, side chain and even BTC series Lightning Channel solutions currently being discussed in the mainstream are all off-chain expansion.

That is to say, it can be completed without changing the original chain structure, such as ARB, $OP and other second layers. Currently, it has even progressed to the second layer, which is a correct narrative path. Therefore, the current ecological development of BTC has not appeared. How many voices are there to change the original chain, but to build various off-chain infrastructure as a future ecological scenario?

(The ecological development path of ETH is repeated on BTC)