Not exact matches
For example, the Ripple Consensus Ledger, which handled payments of
more than $ 1 Billion dollars in 2016, can now process 1000
transactions per second.
Where Bitcoin's
transaction speeds average 7
transactions per second, new blockchain - based currencies are already approaching thousands of
transactions per second; Bitshares claims they can process 100,000
per second.In fact, a newspaper in Winnipeg, Canada, has already begun to use a micropayment system to charge
per article
for its news content and projects earning over $ 100,000 in digital revenue.Blockchain could tilt the balance of power towards individuals, not publishing powerhouses.As mentioned previously, YouTube and Medium have dramatically increased content creators» access to audiences and established a
more democratic, popularity - based promotional scheme.
AWS Simple Storage Service,
for example, stores
more than 339 billion online objects and peaks at
more than 200,000
transactions per second.
«If you want to get
more scalability, you can try to optimize the chain a bit, you can try to go up to 28, 50 or 100 but
for real mainstream application you really need many thousands of
transactions per second, to be flying around
for lots of applications», Buterin concluded.
Shopin, the platform designed to record universal shopping profiles on the blockchain
for use across multiple retailers announced January 11th, 2018, a partnership with iExec to scale their
transaction volume to 1 million or
more per second.
This means
more transactions per second can be recorded on the blockchain, or in other words, it would allow
for a higher
transaction throughput.
TON is setting up some very huge expectations with claims like instant off - chain
transactions and handling millions of
transactions per second, support of billions of users
for thousands of decentralized apps, infinite sharding to prevent congestion and much
more.
The company claims its blockchain system will be able to scale up to provide support
for a large number of users and will be able to process
transactions at a rate of
more than 1,000
transactions per second.
Safe Cash (www.safe.cash), a digital payment technology
for banks, merchants, and consumers, has announced that it is able to handle up to 25,000
transactions per second on its blockchain —
more than 3,000 times as many as Bitcoin.
The paper explains that based on Vermorel's studies, terabyte blocks could scale to far
more than the current 1 MB block size that only allows
for 3 - 4
transactions per second.