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I like the deadpan ‘radix claims 1.4mm tps; in testing, transactions at more than 1/s can cause slowdowns’ - impressive lack of eye rolling.

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Slightly out of context, the 1.4mm tps test was during an earlier iteration of the sharded architecture (coming in 2023) whereas Jepsen were testing the unsharded mainnet.

It's a bold claim to say that your system can handle six orders of magnitude more load than it is actually capable of because next year you might release some software that does better.

It may imply they’d need 1.4 million (mm is millimeters…) shards to meet that test number, and scale linearly while doing it, though.

mm is mille mille, meaning a thousand thousand. 1,000 * 1,000 is 1 million. 1mm to mean 1 million is common outside of the United States.

I live outside the United States and have never seen mm mean anything other than millimeter

Meanwhile I live in the UK and it's completely standard for monetary quantities.

The Financial Times recently changed their abbreviation for million from “m” to “mn” to help screen readers. They would typically read an m suffix as metres; I guess the FT chose mn rather than mm so that screen readers would not say millimetres instead of million.

I’ve seen that use for sure. Perhaps a little telling we’re talking about blockchain tech and that’s what people are using. Is it really about a fast distributed transaction log, or… is it about the money first.

I am American and commonly see mm to mean million.

It has to be capitalized. 1.5MM is 1.5 million. 1.5mm is 1.5 millimeters.

There's a difference between mm and MM.

But they wrote it in the present tense, said it was a world record even ! And how can you say an earlier iteration will come in the future, that seems like a crypto-truth bending like we see a lot :s

Admit it, they exaggerated and removed the statement to instead put it in a timeline now saying: Unlimited scalability and composability to carry DeFi into the global mainstream future with sharded, linearly scalable Cerberus consensus.

A much more reasonable statement /s

You can see a version here of the statement: https://web.archive.org/web/20210711084824/http://www.radixd...

1.4m TPS on a DLT : Radix' last consensus algorithm 'Tempo' publicly achieved 1.4m TPS in 2018, the current world record. The new algorithm 'Cerberus' is theoretically infinitely scalable

For me that means they pretended to have this throughput in 2018, before this "Cerberus" miracle that is infinite. So one could repeat on twitter at every opportunity that Radix is 1.4m TPS, world record, and "later" be "infinite" with Cerberus.

As they say in https://www.radixdlt.com/post/replaying-bitcoin, use the #1MTPS on Twitter to share your opinions. lol.

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