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Re:The Fed Is Down by tfehring on Wednesday February 24, 2021 @03:29PM (#26255373)
Would be interested in seeing the 99.9%ile execution time for BTC vs FedACH transactions. The page linked in the parent comment provides statistics for "timely" processing but doesn't indicate the actual time(s) that that standard represents. My money's still on the Fed though.
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Re:The Fed Is Down by capableweb on Wednesday February 24, 2021 @04:24PM (#26256199)
> Would be interested in seeing the 99.9%ile execution time for BTC vs FedACH transactions

You mean like account to account transactions? Doesn't ACH transactions take "up to 3 business days" or something silly like that? I can't really find any average numbers either as none of the data is being made public.

The transactions speed for one block in Bitcoin has been at max ~30 minutes, you might require up to N amount of blocks depending on your use case. So 10 blocks (safe) would be 5 hours, available 24/7 (granted you have internet access).

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