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by ashtonkem 1952 days ago
Unfortunately for Bitcoin, it needs more than “many multiples” in order to actually handle function as a currency. At 4tps they’re several orders of magnitude short of what the market actually needs.
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That's why second-layer technologies like the Lightning Network are being built.

Bitcoin doesn't have to function as a currency to be wildly successful (since being a currency isn't the only relevant use case), but with second layer networks it will be able to.