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>>57099803
remember how these people think. problem->reaction->solution. you really believe ripple would be working with the biggest banks and central banks in the world and not have a solution for scaling transactions per second?
remember, Schwartz's first patent waaay back in like the 1800s or whatever was about distributed systems splitting up workloads.

the question is whether the solution will be
a) optimizing the XRPL somehow (iirc both Schwartz and Aanchal Malhotra have referred to work being done on this at RippleX)
b) scaling vertically- if i understand correctly this is the solution being done at Solana
c) scaling horizontally with many different sidechains, using the XRPL as a comparatively expensive "central clearinghouse" while most of the action occurs on sidechains

IMO (c) is most likely, this would make XRPL into something more akin to DOT or Cosmos "layer zero" but with an approved central L1. just judging by the current sidechain architecture and proposals, combined with the schizo lore about CBDC walled gardens eventually plugging into the central XRPL driving up XRP demand/price

Wietse alludes to this in his tweet, saying that xahau could be a testing ground for addressing the issue that was made apparent today
https://twitter.com/WietseWind/status/1739759157446693216

horizontal scaling could also be combined with vertical scaling (bringing a shit ton more validators online) and optimization (involving techy stuff i don't understand) so probably in some sense (a) (b) and (c) will be true