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Re:We have reached the "severed fingers and abductions" stag... by noosphr on Thursday May 08, 2025 @03:56AM (#43924066)
The surest way to get flamed out of any crypto mailing list was to ask what the effective clearance rate for the coin was, then following it up with how it could be sped up.

Today the bitcoin network is still stuck at ~7 transactions a second.

This is not what the white paper promised.

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Re:We have reached the "severed fingers and abductions" stag... by dgrr19 on Thursday May 08, 2025 @04:01AM (#43924099)
Thus, other blockchains emerged
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Re:We have reached the "severed fingers and abductions" stag... by tromp on Thursday May 08, 2025 @05:10AM (#43924439)
requiring much higher resources to run a node and making them much less decentralized.
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Re:We have reached the "severed fingers and abductions" stag... by dgrr19 on Thursday May 08, 2025 @05:49AM (#43924649)
Which one are you referring to? What do you want to get all the freedom in the world and no effort for running a decentralized node? Staking blockchains don't require much resources.
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Re:We have reached the "severed fingers and abductions" stag... by tromp on Thursday May 08, 2025 @09:40AM (#43926023)
The ones that allow hundreds of txs per second, making verification of the entire tx history orders of magnitude harder. The limited tx throughput of bitcoin is a feature, not a bug.
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Re:We have reached the "severed fingers and abductions" stag... by noosphr on Thursday May 08, 2025 @07:31AM (#43925128)
Yes, we only need checks notes 3,500 other coins to match the clearance rate of Visa.
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Re:We have reached the "severed fingers and abductions" stag... by Dlemo on Thursday May 08, 2025 @10:17AM (#43926307)
And adding more confusion and more problems.

Btw. Criss chain transaction is the major problem this strategy added.

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