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The original was posted on /r/nanocurrency by /u/novavendetta on 2023-08-02 04:48:01.

I know there’s been plenty of talk about Nano being the optimal currency for micro-transactions (or any transaction for that matter) on a global scale. Let’s say that in a perfect world that Nano was implemented as a form of payment within a WeChat-like app (or like Elon Musk’s prospective X app), or maybe a foreign exchange service, where it is required to handle a large volume of transactions for everyday users.

This would mean transaction volumes would have to process millions, if not billions, of transactions per day. Is there a way to currently test how Nano would react to this sort of volume? How much many nodes (or what level of technology) would be necessary to sustain this level of volume?

By what factor would the average transactions processed per second slow down by, if there was a sudden doubling of the daily active users of Nano (or if it were just simply a peak season for holiday shopping)? How much bloat would blockchain sustain in response to this level of activity? How much, and how often, would pruning be necessary to mitigate any bloat? This isn’t really a question about spam resistance, but more so of Nano’s ability to accommodate peak global demand.