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Right? What is wrong with us that a handful of seconds is worth huge sums of made up money?It's mainly about how many transactions can be packed into those seconds. That number, once upon a time, was less than one: one transaction took more than one second to process. Now, with modern computational power, that number is millions, hundreds of millions even. TL;DR: faster computers faster transactions.3 more...
It's mainly about how many transactions can be packed into those seconds. That number, once upon a time, was less than one: one transaction took more than one second to process. Now, with modern computational power, that number is millions, hundreds of millions even. TL;DR: faster computers faster transactions.
Right? What is wrong with us that a handful of seconds is worth huge sums of made up money?
It's mainly about how many transactions can be packed into those seconds.
That number, once upon a time, was less than one: one transaction took more than one second to process.
Now, with modern computational power, that number is millions, hundreds of millions even.
TL;DR: faster computers faster transactions.