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e1g on Sept 15, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: The Ethereum merge is done

True. The latest financial report from Visa [1] says 164.7B transactions in 2021, or ~5,000 per second. This number is 3x larger! Mastercard is slightly smaller, but comparable at 140B [2].

[1] https://annualreport.visa.com/financials/default.aspx

[2] https://s25.q4cdn.com/479285134/files/doc_financials/2022/q2...

azylman on Sept 15, 2022 [–]

Yup, that's a lot closer to the kind of numbers I would have expected. And if you look at peak it's probably at least 10k tps for each of them.

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