The numbers you list in your argument against a micropayment system being able to function are a fraction of the number of transactions Facebook deals with in updating newsfeeds for the billion+ users on their system.[0]
... which is completely irrelevant because they don't have a double spending problem. Sheesh. It's easy to scale up stuff that is trivially parallelizable.*
Also, I wrote that ten years ago. Add an extra zero or two to the numbers if you want, but it doesn't make any difference.
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