OBE Scaling Principles

The preceding analysis of BTC's scalability journey highlights a fundamental tension between security and scalability. While achieving both in the near term presents challenges, ongoing technological advancements, fueled by hardware and algorithmic breakthroughs, offer continued promise. Crucially, well-defined design principles can guide these advancements, ensuring the security and effectiveness of future upgrades.

To establish a robust framework for BTC protocol and engineering design, a systematic abstraction of the BTC system architecture is necessary. This abstraction will facilitate a comprehensive methodological exploration of design approaches for enhanced scalability.