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minus-square@ChocrateslinkEnglish10•8 months agoRight? What is wrong with us that a handful of seconds is worth huge sums of made up money?
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish3•edit-28 months agoIt’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.
Well, I did not expect this.
Right? What is wrong with us that a handful of seconds is worth huge sums of made up money?
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.
Capitalism and greed
They’re the same picture.
Even communists can be greedy