Ask HN: Bitcoin processing limits

1 points by dminor14 ↗ HN
How much processing power would be required if every transaction in the world used bitcoin?

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It's my understanding that the number of transactions doesn't really have an affect on the amount of processing power needed to run the network. One problem that a large number of transactions could theoretically impose would be that as the number of transactions grow, the memory require to keep track of the main block chain would grow as well, but it seems that this isn't even anywhere close to being an issue.