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I laugh when I read the petition asking Amazon to support bitcoins payments. Not because of the volatility but because of being the slowest database to date. How can Amazon or other big retailer support a tech with 7 t/s for bitcoin or 20 for eth when they have in ten of millions of customers?

There is more innovation to come to outpace the current proven technologies. In the last 18 months or so there is an explosion of new blockchain whitepapers, especially this one: https://www.cryptocoinsnews.com/red-belly-blockchain-to-proc...