Received: from sog-mx-3.v43.ch3.sourceforge.com ([172.29.43.193] helo=mx.sourceforge.net) by sfs-ml-4.v29.ch3.sourceforge.com with esmtp (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1YHeLv-00055V-Ir for bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net; Sat, 31 Jan 2015 20:09:11 +0000 Received-SPF: pass (sog-mx-3.v43.ch3.sourceforge.com: domain of gmail.com designates 209.85.216.53 as permitted sender) client-ip=209.85.216.53; envelope-from=gubatron@gmail.com; helo=mail-qa0-f53.google.com; Received: from mail-qa0-f53.google.com ([209.85.216.53]) by sog-mx-3.v43.ch3.sourceforge.com with esmtps (TLSv1:RC4-SHA:128) (Exim 4.76) id 1YHeLu-0004nY-BE for bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net; Sat, 31 Jan 2015 20:09:11 +0000 Received: by mail-qa0-f53.google.com with SMTP id n4so24484370qaq.12 for ; Sat, 31 Jan 2015 12:09:04 -0800 (PST) X-Received: by 10.229.125.133 with SMTP id y5mr25903198qcr.17.1422734944754; Sat, 31 Jan 2015 12:09:04 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 References: From: Angel Leon Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2015 20:08:57 +0000 Message-ID: To: Mike Hearn Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=001a1133d996fdfbd3050df84a5d X-Spam-Score: -0.6 (/) X-Spam-Report: Spam Filtering performed by mx.sourceforge.net. 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X-BeenThere: bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2015 20:09:11 -0000 --001a1133d996fdfbd3050df84a5d Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 My concerns come from 2 projects that could easily raise the current transaction volume 10x daily in the short term, perhaps even 100x a year from now after the media blows it out. Think legal bittorrent file sales: ebooks, indie music (albums and singles), films, art, stock photography. Think p2p amazon (OpenBazaar) and how that could grow exponentially in terms of transactional volume when ecommerce penetrates geos currently underserved. Thanks for your explanations. it seems as of now we must rely on the likes of centralized solutions like Bitpay, Coinbase to manage the transactional volume we expect, or just wait for the technology to be ready finally handle it in a real p2p fashion, no intermediaries. On Sat, Jan 31, 2015, 6:04 PM Mike Hearn wrote: > "Alipay handled up to 2.85 million transactions per minute, and 54 percent >> of its transactions are made via mobile device." >> > > I know China is a very big place but even so - 47,500 transactions per > second would be almost quintiple what Visa handles across the entire world. > With only 300 million users and primarily online usage (?) this claim feels > a little suspect to me. > > Given the wording "up to 2.85 million" I wonder if that is some freak > spike caused by people's behaviour being synchronised externally (e.g. a > fixed start time for the sale that people are waiting for). It's hard to > imagine that they sustained anything close to that for the entire day. > > So this is really a discussion about peak performance. > > If you average every transaction around 250 bytes, then you'd need ~15 >> Gigabytes per block to be broadcast and hashed by all the full nodes every >> 10 minutes, eating good 2Tb of storage daily... do miners have enough >> bandwidth and CPU power to handle this? >> > > There's a discussion of such things here that might be useful: > > https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Scalability > > It discusses various optimisations, like not actually sending tx data > twice. > > I wouldn't worry about it too much. It took decades for Visa to even > approach 10,000 txns/sec. PayPal, I believe, still "only" handles a few > hundred. And those services had the benefits of minimal competition, > working in people's local currencies, integrated dispute mediation and not > representing any real threat to the political status quo. Bitcoin isn't > going to be needing to handle Alipay's level of traffic any time soon. > > Frankly, scaling is a nice problem to have, it means you're popular. It'd > be a mistake to just blindly assume Bitcoin will take over the world. > Growing market share is difficult. Worry more about how to get 300 million > crazy users than the precise broadcast protocol that'd be needed to handle > them ;) > --001a1133d996fdfbd3050df84a5d Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

My concerns come from 2 projects that could easily raise the= current transaction volume 10x daily in the short term,=C2=A0 perhaps even= 100x a year from now after the media blows it out.

Think legal bittorrent file sales: ebooks, indie music (albu= ms and singles), films, art, stock photography.

Think p2p amazon (OpenBazaar) and how that could grow expone= ntially in terms of transactional volume when ecommerce penetrates geos cur= rently underserved.

Thanks for your explanations. it seems as of now we must rel= y on the likes of centralized solutions like Bitpay, Coinbase to manage the= transactional volume we expect, or just wait for the technology to be read= y finally handle it in a real p2p fashion, no intermediaries.


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On Sat, Jan 31, 2015, 6:04 PM=C2=A0Mike Hear= n <mike@plan99.net> wrote:
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"Alipay handled up to= 2.85 million transactions per minute, and 54 percent of its transactions a= re made via mobile device."

I know China is a very big place but even so - 47,50= 0 transactions per second would be almost quintiple what Visa handles acros= s the entire world. With only 300 million users and primarily online usage = (?) this claim feels a little suspect to me.

Given= the wording "up to 2.85 million" I wonder if that is some freak = spike caused by people's behaviour being synchronised externally (e.g. = a fixed start time for the sale that people are waiting for). It's hard= to imagine that they sustained anything close to that for the entire day.<= /div>

So this is really a discussion about peak performa= nce.

If= you average every transaction around 250 bytes, then you'd need ~15 Gi= gabytes per block to be broadcast and hashed by all the full nodes every 10= minutes, eating good 2Tb of storage daily... do miners have enough bandwid= th and CPU power to handle this?=C2=A0

There's a discussion of such things here that mig= ht be useful:


It discusses various optimisations, like not = actually sending tx data twice.

I wouldn't wor= ry about it too much. It took decades for Visa to even approach 10,000 txns= /sec. PayPal, I believe, still "only" handles a few hundred. And = those services had the benefits of minimal competition, working in people&#= 39;s local currencies, integrated dispute mediation and not representing an= y real threat to the political status quo. Bitcoin isn't going to be ne= eding to handle Alipay's level of traffic any time soon.=C2=A0

Frankly, scaling is a nice problem to have, it means you&#= 39;re popular. It'd be a mistake to just blindly assume Bitcoin will ta= ke over the world. Growing market share is difficult. Worry more about how = to get 300 million crazy users than the precise broadcast protocol that'= ;d be needed to handle them ;)
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