Blockchain technologies face a maturity problem

Blockchain technologies face a maturity problem
Dan Swinhoe, IDG Connect, 2018/05/25
The first problem is scalability, which shows up immediately in the amount of time it takes to verify that a transaction is authentic. Visa performs 40K transactions per second, while Ethereum and Bitcoin are capable of between 7-15 per second. You see the issue. The energy cost is another factor, "currently around 180 million KWh for just 200,000 transactions." More...