[brandonmenc]

> there are consensus mechanisms that are a lot faster (3 orders of magnitude)

Correct me if I'm wrong, but this still falls far short of like, VISA.

[chemeng]

PoS and Sharding on ETH (part of ETH2) should theoretically allow it to surpass VISA's transaction bandwidth. (Visa Currently reported to be around 65k Tx/s, though average volume is somewhere in the 1-5k Tx/s)

[joeblau]

You're not wrong :-D