Re: [Bitcoin-development] Is there a way to estimate the maximum number of transactions per minute Bitcoin can handle as it is today?

2015-01-31 Thread Mike Hearn
Alipay handled up to 2.85 million transactions per minute, and 54 percent of its transactions are made via mobile device. I know China is a very big place but even so - 47,500 transactions per second would be almost quintiple what Visa handles across the entire world. With only 300 million

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Is there a way to estimate the maximum number of transactions per minute Bitcoin can handle as it is today?

2015-01-31 Thread Angel Leon
My concerns come from 2 projects that could easily raise the current transaction volume 10x daily in the short term, perhaps even 100x a year from now after the media blows it out. Think legal bittorrent file sales: ebooks, indie music (albums and singles), films, art, stock photography. Think

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Is there a way to estimate the maximum number of transactions per minute Bitcoin can handle as it is today?

2015-01-31 Thread Wladimir
On Fri, 30 Jan 2015, Nick Simpson wrote: This has been discussed before. I believe most people don't expect Bitcoin to replace all of the various methods of payment.  Scalability is always a concern, just not to the level of  Alipay this year (or the next or the next for that matter.) Yes,

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Is there a way to estimate the maximum number of transactions per minute Bitcoin can handle as it is today?

2015-01-30 Thread Allen Piscitello
You are assuming that the only way to use Bitcoin is on-chain transactions and that is the only way for it to scale. This is a mistake. On Fri, Jan 30, 2015 at 6:48 PM, Angel Leon gubat...@gmail.com wrote: On the Chinese Single's Day (sort of like the american Black Friday) according to MIT's

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Is there a way to estimate the maximum number of transactions per minute Bitcoin can handle as it is today?

2015-01-30 Thread Nick Simpson
This has been discussed before. I believe most people don't expect Bitcoin to replace all of the various methods of payment. Scalability is always a concern, just not to the level of Alipay this year (or the next or the next for that matter.) Nick On Jan 30, 2015 7:08 PM, Angel Leon