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by p2p_astroturf 1657 days ago
tell us something we didnt already know. you can solve the speed problem by using solana or literally any of the other 100 coins that claim to be fast, or eth2 in six months

i am not even a person who is a fan of blockchains (since they are mostly poorly designed, unfounded, etc)
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jonny_eh 1657 days ago
> you can solve the speed problem by using solana or literally any of the other 100 coins that claim to be fast, or eth2 in six months

I've been seeing this claim for years now. It's gotten quite old.

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Karrot_Kream 1657 days ago
Algorand also uses Proof of Stake, is much faster than ETH, and supports smart contracts. MSM won't write about it for the same reasons they won't write about a large AWS outage but they _will_ write about a Facebook outage. It's not a conspiracy; it's just not interesting to laypeople yet. The shitshow of art NFTs make for good press.
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gfodor 1657 days ago
Which claim? The meme that transaction throughput is inherently low in crypto is falsified via solana (as mentioned) or avalanche. Bitcoin will likely always be low TPS. Ethereum 2 maybe will eventually ship.
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hanniabu 1657 days ago
If you're gonna sacrifice decentralization, security, and uptime then you might as well use a server. No self respecting developer will use solana.
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