Facebook digital currency researchers publish ultra high-speed payments paper

A digital transaction settlement system being developed by researchers working on Facebook’s Novi cryptocurrency digital wallet app could support up to 160,000 transactions per second, “about 7x the peak transaction rate of the Visa payments network”, according to a paper published by the research team. The 15-page paper, ‘FastPay: High-performance Byzantine Fault Tolerant Settlement’, describes […]

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