OT I know but...

This is a worrying statement: "In the future, a lot of these large merchants are going to be in need of dedicated confirmation power to rapidly transact their sales.”  Does this mean that he envisions his clearing house only accepting transactions from clients and disregarding all others?  What would that do to the general network efficiency?  Would it lead to a situation similar to what breaking net neutrality would do?

You are the brilliant one D&T, am I reading too much into this?

Again sorry for the OT.