• Chocrates@lemmy.world
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    7 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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      7 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.