Bitcoin itself has a laughably low transaction speed, somewhere in the neighborhood of 4/s. The main way around this appears to "trade" crypto in exchanges without most clients ever taking physical possession of their coins via the blockchain itself.
This is why exchanges getting their hot wallets hacked is a big deal, a shocking percentage of crypto "traders" leave their holdings with the exchange.
Bitcoin itself has a laughably low transaction speed, somewhere in the neighborhood of 4/s. The main way around this appears to "trade" crypto in exchanges without most clients ever taking physical possession of their coins via the blockchain itself.
This is why exchanges getting their hot wallets hacked is a big deal, a shocking percentage of crypto "traders" leave their holdings with the exchange.