Quote from: kazuki49 on July 19, 2015, 12:49:10 AM

Interesting post by smooth on another thread, thanks to the last optimizations Monero can actually get near VISA-levels of TPS:

Quote from: smooth on July 19, 2015, 12:40:06 AM

Quote from: Nxtblg on July 18, 2015, 10:46:43 PM

Quote from: thefunkybits on July 18, 2015, 04:22:26 PM

Quote from: Nxtblg on July 18, 2015, 02:22:39 PM

Speaking of block size...what's Monero's capacity in terms of txs per second?

Monero has a very scalable block size solution. It is "adaptive" as it changes with the amount of information going through the Monero network.

Okay, thanks. I'd prefer a number, but what you wrote will do.

What he said was right. There is no hard limit in the protocol. Noodle Doodle's recent benchmarks on an i7-2600K show 2.5 ms average tx verification time (per core) so that would max out at 1600 tx/second.

Usage at that level would require a lot of bandwidth and CPUs slower than a 2011 quad core desktop would not be able to keep up and would need to drop off.

The good news, re:groundbreaking study detailing scaling capability in the face of exploding demand, has yet to permeate down to the traders. Early bird gets the worm.