Comment by New_Dawn on 02/01/2018 at 22:04 UTC

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AFAIK tx millions/sec.

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Comment by hsjoberg at 02/01/2018 at 22:09 UTC

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It's a bit tricky. Between channels and nodes on the network the tx/s metric is pretty much irrelevant, *but* we cannot scale up indefinitely with just LN because we need space onchain for the commitment transactions etc, that's why we eventually need a blocksize increase as well of some sort.

cc /u/Lambdal7