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Re: why IPv6 isn't ready for prime time, SMTP edition
From: "John R. Levine" <johnl () iecc com>
Date: 29 Mar 2014 22:40:48 -0400
The numbers you list in your argument against a micropayment system being able to function are a fraction of the number of transactions Facebook deals with in updating newsfeeds for the billion+ users on their system.[0]
... which is completely irrelevant because they don't have a double spending problem. Sheesh. It's easy to scale up stuff that is trivially parallelizable.*
Also, I wrote that ten years ago. Add an extra zero or two to the numbers if you want, but it doesn't make any difference.
Regards, John Levine, johnl () iecc com, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for Dummies", Please consider the environment before reading this e-mail. http://jl.ly * - a term of art, look it up
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