jugchock

Steem regularly processes 1.5 million transactions per day and is at 0.13% capacity[1]. If my math is right, that comes out to the ability to process 14k tx/s.

[1]: http://www.blocktivity.info

This seems to have been said in jest but the main thing keeping flying cars in sci-fi and out of the real world is the human element. Most people have a hard enough time driving in two dimensions. Adding a third would be chaos without the aid of our robot overlords.

A little shocked at how hard this hit me, maybe it was from reading the comments here. It always made me a little sad that I never met anyone in person that appreciated him the way I did. Hopefully his death will spread awareness of his work and his influence will never die.