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Comment by matheusmoreira

For comparison, Visa claims it can handle more than 65 thousand transaction messages per second:

https://usa.visa.com/dam/VCOM/download/corporate/media/visan...

> Our advanced global processing network, VisaNet, provides secure and reliable payments around the world, and is capable of handling more than 65,000 transaction messages a second.

The small scale of bitcoin increases the cost of transactions, making it less useful as a currency and more useful as an investiment. Perhaps it was made this way by design.

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