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by alexbosworth 4554 days ago
There is a limit of transactions per hour based on the blocks

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Blocks

There is roughly 1 block every 10 minutes and it can only include 1 megabyte of transactions (transactions are around 500 bytes)

I don't think this limit has ever been hit but it doesn't allow for a ton of transactions per hour