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by prepend 1720 days ago
They’ve been working on scaling for six years. You know any tech platforms that took six years to scale to the point of usability?

If they cared about scaling rather than milking greater fools, I think it would be solved.

Imagine if someone presented a database or OS that worked so inpractically and they said they were still working on scaling after six years. That would be the dumbest startup ever.
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TekMol 1720 days ago 

    You know any tech platforms that took
    six years to scale to the point of usability?
The internet comes to mind. It started in 1970 with ARPANET. And we still have scaling issues :)
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prepend 1720 days ago
Arpanet was really useful early on and got more useful as they added nodes and protocols.
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DennisP 1720 days ago
As I mentioned above, rollups are available today. In six years it's gone from 7 tx/sec (Bitcoin's max on chain) to a couple thousand tx/sec, improving by almost three orders of magnitude. If it continues at that rate, it'll be around a million tx/sec six years from now.

The roadmap I described above actually does get to that level if we assume a 3X hardware and bandwidth improvement over that period.

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