• @Chocrates
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      108 months ago

      Right? What is wrong with us that a handful of seconds is worth huge sums of made up money?

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        8 months ago

        It’s mainly about how many transactions can be packed into those seconds.

        That number, once upon a time, was less than one: one transaction took more than one second to process.

        Now, with modern computational power, that number is millions, hundreds of millions even.

        TL;DR: faster computers faster transactions.