BTC can handle no more than 7 transactions per second (TPS). Lightning Network (LN) promises to solve the problem. The theory is that normal transactions would only happen in LN, but can get settled on BTC chain occasionally. Other than the fact that Lightning Network does not work, just a little bit of math would...
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