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If I remember correctly, L1 ETH can handle ~13 transactions per second. Meanwhile L1 Bitcoin can handle ~4 transactions per second. At the time it was introduced, one of Ethereum's selling points was that it was able to handle 3x more transactions per second than Bitcoin, IIRC.

300% more is usually considered a good upgrade for most things (Apple is touting a whopping 20% speed increase on their latest iPad, for example). It's just that six years is a long time in this space and they've learned how to make things a lot faster since.




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