DigiSpeed

Activated in December 2015 this was a hard fork that focused on making the DigiByte transaction speeds faster. Block time was reduced by 50% from 30 seconds to 15 seconds and new block propagation code was added based on Microsoft Research. This allows DigiByte to handle up to 560 transactions per second. Every 2 years the DigiByte blockchain's dynamic system doubles the number of transactions per second by doubling the block size. In 2017, capability reaches 560 transactions per second, with a maximum capability of 280,000 transactions per second to be reached in the year 2035.