[3fe9a03ccd14ca5]

I don’t think the 7 transactions per second is artificial. In fact, I think it’s the technical maximum.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitcoin_scalability_problem

[fidelramos]

1 MB was an arbitrary value chosen by Satoshi Nakamoto to fight off spam in 2010, in no way it's a technical limit on the Bitcoin network, it's completely artificial.