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The original was posted on /r/nanocurrency by /u/OwnAGun on 2024-03-07 21:28:23.

The backlog creates the limit or a pace at which ledger bloat is allowed to happen to the network. This provides a long-term security and sustainability benefit. The backlog feature means Nano has a scalable and sustainable ledger. The backlog is nothing to worr about since they are only micro-dust transactions that are the only thing being held back bcause Nano has a great prioritization system. If you sent 0.00000000001 of a Nano your transaction is still going to be prioritized over all the millions of smaller micro-dust spam transactions in the backlog.

This whole system scales according to Nano’s adoption.

Someone may complain about a small transaction not going through quickly, but if you look at other cryptos, they don’t even give you the option of doing as small of a dust-like transaction AT ALL. Nano solves the dust problem better than anything else. Other cryptos, like Bitcoin for example, dust amounts become locked behind fees so they are of no value and no option to go through is even offered. With Nano you can eventually get your dust for free, according to prioritization.

We are still early. Nano’s prioritization system is only going to get better as time goes on and we can optimize it better.

The amount of transactions per second for Nano is scalable as needed according to actual adoption needs. The backlog right now is most definitely due to spam and it is doing it’s job protecting the network. All the transaction spammers are doing is throwing their money away and basically making Nano rarer as they are locking up their own money behind their own spam transactions. Their spam dust is essentially like being burned/locked behind itself.

I am just writing this to try to explain how I understand it and hopefully help others understand it and calm down about it since it is kind of a new thing. Hopefully this makes sense. Other cryptos don’t have a prioritization system like Nano so if a backlog happened on their network it would be a total mess, but Nano is different. Nano is designed better. Thank the developers!