Quote from: Carlton Banks on February 26, 2017, 02:11:35 AM

Quote from: jbreher on February 26, 2017, 01:44:13 AM

But this is irrelevant. Again. Despite being irrelevant to Bitcoin, it neither brings an end to semiconductor scaling. As you keep missing, we are just starting to exploit the third dimension in semiconductor fabrication.

hmmmmm, jbreher thinks silicon chips can be fabricated at 5nm and less, knows that 14nm took 24+ months, yet also knows that 3D TSV chips is suddenly being looked at as the actual vector with which to continue Moore's law. Why aren't the engineers considering going into femtometer processes? (like you seem to think is possible lol)

You're right this is irrelevant, but it was your point to begin with, jbreher. So now we know your original post was irrelevant, spare yourself the embarrassment https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1771911.msg17957121#msg17957121

to wit:

Quote from: iCEBREAKER on February 24, 2017, 01:19:49 AM

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.