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Re:Could the US Dollar Be Crypto's Killer App? by 3fe9a03ccd14ca5 on Tuesday April 14, 2020 @05:51PM (#22871933)
I don’t think the 7 transactions per second is artificial. In fact, I think it’s the technical maximum.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitcoin_scalability_problem

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Re:Could the US Dollar Be Crypto's Killer App? by fidelramos on Tuesday April 14, 2020 @06:23PM (#22872223)
1 MB was an arbitrary value chosen by Satoshi Nakamoto to fight off spam in 2010, in no way it's a technical limit on the Bitcoin network, it's completely artificial.
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