silence7@slrpnk.net to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agoClimate change is altering Earth’s rotation enough to mess with our clockswapo.stexternal-linkmessage-square24fedilinkarrow-up1146arrow-down19
arrow-up1137arrow-down1external-linkClimate change is altering Earth’s rotation enough to mess with our clockswapo.stsilence7@slrpnk.net to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square24fedilink
minus-square🅿🅸🆇🅴🅻@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10arrow-down1·1 year agoWell, I did not expect this.
minus-squareChris@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12arrow-down2·1 year agoRight? What is wrong with us that a handful of seconds is worth huge sums of made up money?
minus-squaredeadbeef79000@lemmy.nzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·edit-21 year agoIt’s mainly about how many transactions can be packed into those seconds. That number, once upon a time, was less than one: one transaction took more than one second to process. Now, with modern computational power, that number is millions, hundreds of millions even. TL;DR: faster computers faster transactions.
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minus-squaresamus12345@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down1·1 year agoThey’re the same picture.
Well, I did not expect this.
Right? What is wrong with us that a handful of seconds is worth huge sums of made up money?
It’s mainly about how many transactions can be packed into those seconds.
That number, once upon a time, was less than one: one transaction took more than one second to process.
Now, with modern computational power, that number is millions, hundreds of millions even.
TL;DR: faster computers faster transactions.
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They’re the same picture.
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