[wgerard]

> To your comments re bitcoin, it sounds to me like somebody complaining that Internet is slow back in the 90s/00s.

To their point though, dial-up modems are (by and large) a relic of the past and have been replaced by better (i.e. faster) methods of internet access.

[feriancek]

We still use TCP! The way we access the (internet) network has changed, but the network still works in the same way.