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by CryptoPunk 2983 days ago
NEO can't do 10,000 tps. The entire network has gone offline, multiple times, when handling a single token sale:

http://storeofvalueblog.com/posts/a-definitive-guide-to-neo/

It's easy to benchmark massive tps rates on a closed testnet, as in this case of removing all safeguards from an Ethereum private network to get it to 1.5 million tps:

https://medium.com/@suchi.blackwing/cryptocurrency-scaling-e...

2 comments

> NEO can't do 10,000 tps.

It seems that the article is just referring to the same 10K transactions per second number mentioned in the NEO documentation.

>> The entire network has gone offline, multiple times, when handling a single token sale

Is this a bug in the protocol or is it a fundamental issue with the approach?

>>Is this a bug in the protocol or is it a fundamental issue with the approach?

A bug in the protocol.

Ethereum was a target of DDoS attacks few years ago and the community has made several updates to improve the protocol since.
Ethereum never went offline. The NEO network actually went offline.