The One Thing That Is Going Up In Splinterlands Are The Numbers Of Rental Operations!
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The number of rental operations for Splinterlands has been going up troughout the whole year. There are now services that provide card management for owners and these are probably making more operations.
Unlike some other Splinterlands operations that are not stored on the blockchain, for example battles, rentals are still recorded on the blockchain. Because of this they have now become number one operation that Splinterlands records on the blockchain and the number one operation on the chain itself that is using most of the RC these days.
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What do you think is the reason for this? What is the need for separate database ?
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Becouse there is a ton of battles and recording them on chain requires wast resources for something that is not a high level priority like asset ownership.
Do you think it will be an issue if there are many games which are similar to Splinterlands running on Hive at the same time?
Will that cause delay in posting transactions since there can only be limited number of transactions per block?
Whenever a blockchain has more transactions that its blocks can handle the fees goes up ... like we have seen on ethereum.
While hive has no fees, it will become more expensive to transact and users with low RCs will not be able to do it. Meaning more HP/RC will be needed.
Got that.
So what does Hive is scalable actually mean?
Is there anyway we can have more transactions per block ever?
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At the moment hive blocks are 64kb size. Meaning each block, each 3 seconds we can add a maximum of 64kb data to the chain.
Witnesses can increase/decrease block data if there is a majority, same as for the 20% APR on HBD.
Thing is bigger blocks means bigger chain, and more expensive hardvere to run it. So there needs a balance to be made. The curent block size has been serving well for now and the hive chain is cheap to run. I run a witness node on Hive ... I for sure cant afford to run a node on for example on Solana where you need a dacenter to run it... very exoensive... this makes chains centralized...
The block size was the prime reason for BTC/BCH for back in 2017
Amazing , one final question -
Right now , is there any way to calculate how many KB of data does a specific block contain?
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There might be some data out there ... I havent looked for it, so dunno ....
P.S. About scalability... hive has only 20 nodes that make consensus, that makes it faster and scalable. Also hive doesnt have smart contracts on layer one, that are computation heavy ... its not just a raw bandwith, but also making computations that smart contracts do ... thats why sometimes its better to have them on L2 for specifc dapps, not on L1 for general data
Got it , makes absolute sense . Thanks a lot for all the info @dalz , really appreciate it.
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The servers couldn't keep up and therefore splinterlands was constantly behind on hive blocks.
Also there were tools that read the selected monsters from the opponent and recommended a lineup to counter it, which gave some people a totally unfair advantage.
People that knew about this exploit would wait until the last second to submit their battles in ranked and the last minutes in tournaments.
So do you think it will be a problem if there are 10 games similar to splinterlands on Hive ?
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Yeah this makes sense .
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On both sides of the rental transactions things can now be automated.
So you can setup a bot with splintermate for $1 per month and set up rental groups in the tool to automatically rent cards. Even related to the focus quest of the day.
On the other side you can rent out cards automatically with splex.gg, which will constantly try to optimize the rental prices for your cards.
Finally, it has become a lot more common to rent only for a couple days and to cancel rentals after a couple days, in order to raise the rental price when the end of the splinterlands season is coming closer
Am not surprised at the rentals going up, when I sometimes check the opponents I come against due to the way I was beaten, I see some don't even own a single card.
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