Well, you don't do it everyday, right ? once you sync, you keep it synced - me personally, I sync once a week and it takes a coffee break to sync.
My point is that you can't sync, whether you've synced before or not. It becomes impossible, because you can verify up to 500 transactions per second, whereas the network is growing by more than 600 per sec.
You're talking way into the future, when there will be this many transactions (maybe in 20 years lol) then infrastructure will be much faster as well and Monero has no protocol limits, only hardware limitations so with time, it all comes together - you would know if you watched the talk from a much smarter man than I am.
600 tx per second ? you know what's the current maximum for Bitcoin is ? 7.
I know, but I don't claim that it can scale on-chain. I'm big proponent of off-chain solutions because I acknowledge that there is no such a thing as on-chain solution on scalability.
You want to build on top of Bitcoin with it's limited small block size ? LN has proven recently that it can't work when L1 has larger transaction count like we have seen with Ordinals spam.
Monero is way more scalable today, there's no argue about it.
Correct, but what matters, IMO, is which one is more scalable over the long term.
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Well, Bitcoin is not scalable at all as we can see today.