Jbreher recently mentioned the tx capacity of an average computer. I quote:
The only serious investigation into the matter has proven that your average 'home' computer today can handle a simple block size increase that will net us about 100 tx/s. And with a fix to core's crappy multithreading design, can handle block size increase up to about 500 tx/s. And that is without looking for other sw architecture improvements.
Jbreher is usually accurate in his factual statements, and his math is usually flawless. However, he does have his bigblocker agenda in his mind when he posts. He failed to mention bandwidth and latency, which are the real bottlenecks - more so than storage or computing power.
It is true that I am a bigblocker. However, facts have no agenda.
Bandwidth at 100 tx/s: 3Mb/s. That's b as in bits, not B as in bytes.
What latency do you think is relevant? The only reason for the chain to be of blocks instead of transactions is to remove latency as an issue in arriving at consensus.