Explain to me how VISA, with it's IBM 3/60 and hundreds of thousands of paper receipts each day is supposed to scale to 15,000 TPS ?
Also, don't dismiss Lightning, as the other comments have said.
Also, how do the thousands of trades per second that Bitcoin exchanges process happen?
RTGS the banking Real Time Gross Settlement layer for banks is capable of handling up to 9 TPS, but rarely exceeds 5.
There are hundreds of answers across thousands of scenarios.
You have asked a multi disciplined, multi factor question as if it requires a single answer.
I've given a couple of things to think about, but VISA couldn't answer the same question in the 1970's either.
Yes
A dictator responsible for killing millions vs. a salad eating Italian.
I can't argue with that 😂
What about the Mac addresses, those managers are the real bastards 😂
Now I’m taking recipe advice from a dead dictator? 😂
Do you think we should offer to pay the UK and European Parliament a fee for all the free marketing they’re doing for Bitcoin and NOSTR?
So this interests me, Chevy Chase was extremely successful, but fell from grace.
Now he is a complex mixture of extreme hubris wrapped in a massive blanket of denial and has created an easily deflated image of self confidence.
He's desperate to be loved and respected again while simultaneously telling the world to GFY.
Fame is a terrible beast for those who have not learned to ride it.
Is your car parked in the same county at least? 😂
I remember when $35Bn could buy you something worthwhile 😂
Good artists copy, great artists steal 😂
Luckily I don't live in London, but yes, the tube would be horrendous at the moment 😂
Notestack is showing 10 of the 22 articles I have.
It's not running on my desktop Primal?
Was Mussolini the good guy out of him and Hitler? 😂
Yep, it could be that alt season they talk about in myths and fables 😂
I did a pump and dump on $TRUMP when it launched. The new president paid for a very enjoyable weekend of beer, pizza and other acts of debauchery 😂
I pop by once in a while, just to check in on the inmates 😂
That’s where I entered, why was she given a pair of jeans to wear and who cares what her political affiliations are?
💯 😂
And to be honest, if I'd just paid $44Bn for a company worth a fraction of that, I would 100% promote myself to the top of every feed.
Is it too late to ask who Sydney Sweeney is? 😂
Actually this is kinda funny and will drive more people away from X onto other social platforms 😂
Elon is being community noted to disprove his allegations and Sam has asked him to sign an affidavit that Elon has changed the X algorithm to suit his own companies, which of course he has 😂
Fiat shitposters are at a whole different, but lower level 😂
We're blocked from that sort of thing in the UK now 😂
Just imagine them all walking around naked, without cold storage wallets 😂
Yes, that also.
So, Netflix used to store their own servers at premises near you, which they constantly updated with the latest shows, so when you wanted to stream a show, it wouldn't use the public Internet.
Nooooooo
My AI agent has just quit 😂
😂 😂 😂
OK, so TOR and VPN's have overlap, but they are not the same.
TOR is a public network of relays first devised by the U.S. Navy in the mid 1990's to prevent tracking or blocking of the Internet by oppressive regimes.
VPN's can do this, but they were originally devised as a backhaul to your central office and do not attempt to obfuscate your connection, just the contents.
In theory a VPN can be hacked with enough computing brute force, TOR cannot, it must be hijacked, ideally at either the entry or exit node.
TOR prevents tracking by taking your traffic and passing it through a temporary path which includes 3 intermediary hops, an entry node, a middle node and an exit node. Each node adds a layer of encryption, such that all 5 participants know their immediate neighbours, but not the complete route in the channel.
This provides incredible security, but at the cost of time, compute power and non native support (you must either using a TOR protocol layer, or a TOR supported browser like Brave).
VPNs are a single path between you and the exit node at which point you can access either the local network, or through a bridge, the public Internet. These are usually incredibly fast and efficient and are much more widely supported natively by OS's and devices.
For me, TOR is the ultimate security system, but it comes with tradeoffs, primarily speed and compute power. I am also reliant on volunteers running entry / exit or snowflake, middle nodes.
TOR is also seen as a negative protocol by many ISPs or public bodies, who may pay more attention to your activities as a result of using it. VPNs use standard protocols and can even use non standard, unchecked ports like the NTP port 123.
I manage my nodes with a private VPN included with Umbrel called Tailscale. This implements the wireguard, open source protocol. Using that, I have created a private secure network across all my premises that only I can access.
Using this I can connect my wallets like Zeus meaning I can make lightning payments over my own private network without having to rely on a third party socket provider like Alby or a slow, public, non natively supported network like TOR.
I have, in the past, tried to make public lightning payments using a TOR connected mobile wallet, these often take up to a minute to establish a path and make the experience for both the customer and vendor extremely painful.
More than that, I can embed nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnddaehgu3wwp6kyqpq68euw93e4cam59llcmydav0akwjk2p4nfy3p85pn22xv9y2jxuzqf35lee inside my nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnddaehgu3wwp6kyqpqwr5azetlyy80apyxfp6y3eky3j54g0typwh3ceuftwvur4dmqjesuer6g2 setup meaning that in addition to my private global network, I can also use exit nodes outside of my own premises throughout the world to gain local access to services, bypassing geo-blocking restrictions which are aggressively being added by over reaching governments and corporations.
#catstr #grownostr
I've got a new idea for a reverse Internet.
Each country hosts its own content and we VPN to that country to access it 😂
There are a lot of things you don't know. You're choosing to protect your ego instead of embracing the unknown.
I understand, I get it, the ego is a powerful force inside each of us.
Right now, understanding VPNs or Knots is a less important lesson than trying to understand yourself and understanding your own weaknesses or vulnerabilities.
I appreciate you are struggling with this, we've all gone through this journey at some stage. Bitcoin and self sovereignty was the catalyst that allowed me to be free of my ego and any dependance on any third party.
This is the more important journey. I appreciate you are not ready to hear this, I simply post this for that time in the future when you are ready to look inside yourself.
Good luck, I wish you well.
Feel free to insult this post or me if it helps you right now. I understand.
GM
I've been studying the Dunning-Kruger effect recently.
I now realise I know nothing 😂
It's car fleet management company now 😂
I love how you ask a question and then answer it in the next sentence 😂
You also tell me to give something I've been using for years a try, as if I have no experience.
This is the Dunning-Kruger effect on full display.
Why don't you assume I know more than you and ask why a VPN is important, not tell me why it isn't.