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by lightweb 842 days ago
Bitcoin BTC tops out at 7 TPS.

Visa tops out at around 50,000 TPS.

This is just an initial target test. Bitcoin scales unbounded.

10M TPS next target.

This is also just layer 1. It's designed for additional layers expressed through transaction script (with all op_codes enabled, which unlocks a complete Forth environment).

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10M tps? You're going to need a whole data centre's worth of storage to run a single node within a few years.

Extremely naive.

Bitcoin's transaction rate is 7 tps for a reason.

BTC is 7 TPS because MasterCard et al neutered it.

Bitcoin is professionalizing. It's built for everything in the world to be timestamped with super low transaction fees.