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As the stream of transactions goes up, how difficult is it to keep up with them to pull this kind of heist off? Actually, I don't even know how many transactio

As the stream of transactions goes up, how difficult is it to keep up with them to pull this kind of heist off? Actually, I don't even know how many transactions/sec are happening in the Ethereum/Bitcoin world right now. Is there some sort of a stream one can subscribe to, to see what transactions are happening, and try to compromise them?

thinkmassive 8y ago
Just run a full node and your peers will send you new transactions. Ingest them from the node’s RPC interface into your own application for processing. Send your own transactions out through the same node.
duskwuff 8y ago
> As the stream of transactions goes up It doesn't. Bitcoin is architecturally limited to ~7 transactions per second, and typical rates are about half that.
- 1024core 8y ago
  At only 7tps, how could Bitcoin ever be used as cash?
  - duskwuff 8y ago
    It can't. At least, not without systems for off-chain transaction settlement, like the Lightning Network -- which brings a bunch of new complexity and new problems with it.