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manuelabeledo
Sounds awfully low for something that was supposed to shake the financial sector.
lightweb
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).

npoc
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.

lightweb
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.

npoc
This isn't bitcoin.

And how is this going to be decentralised if its blockchain grows at 1M transactions/sec? Hardly anyone will have that kind of storage available.

lightweb
This is more Bitcoin than BTC at this point. It follows the whitepaper completely.

3 Petabytes of data after 6 months. This is all done on AWS currently.