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Board Bitcoin Discussion
Re: So who the hell is still supporting BU?
by
jbreher
on 24/02/2017, 02:02:51 UTC
You do realize Bitcoin is working exactly as intended (ie allocating scarce resources efficiently)

Well, no. To quote satoshi:

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The existing Visa credit card network processes about 15 million Internet purchases per day worldwide.  Bitcoin can already scale much larger than that with existing hardware for a fraction of the cost.  It never really hits a scale ceiling.  If you're interested, I can go over the ways it would cope with extreme size.

By Moore's Law, we can expect hardware speed to be 10 times faster in 5 years and 100 times faster in 10.  Even if Bitcoin grows at crazy adoption rates, I think computer speeds will stay ahead of the number of transactions.