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by jajag 944 days ago
> people who still don't believe that decentralized blockchain networks are the future of payments

Imagine if the network was working but at 7 global transactions per second and each purchase took 10 mins for the payment to clear.

Fact of the matter is that even with yesterday's outage, the Spanish payment card network still delivers excellent reliability and performance.

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You're describing Bitcoin, basically the oldest and cruftiest option, and without the Lightning network upgrades that are running on top of it now.