Stacks begins rolling out phase 2 of ‘Nakamoto’ major overhaul

The upgrade, called Nakamoto in honor of Bitcoin’s pseudonymous founder, will separate the Stacks block production schedule from Bitcoin’s. The layer 2 network has a higher transaction throughput than Bitcoin (processing about 7 transactions per second), but as originally designed, the stack produces blocks at the same rate as Bitcoin, causing congestion problems, said Muneeb Ali, the network’s founder. Ali) told CoinDesk.