@ThinkingUSD Curiously this isn’t true in engineering, the longer you’ve been around, the more problems and failure you’ve seen and your tenure is worth a lot if you can keep up the red queen race.
@ZforZcash @Snowden Thanks for the take! Is there any good objective write up that outlines the trade offs? There is a lot on Google, but what I found are either simple lists of features or opinionated hit pieces.
1/ Many community members have inquired about the health of the network in the wake of FTX's collapse.
The @Solana Foundation is committed to transparency and gathered a few key metrics on the network's performance through this period of volatility. 🧵
https://t.co/tgp4IM2qPA
@armaniferrante@levicook@tracy_codes Semantics, maybe. You provide a program with an API as a service in an execution environment where it is immutable and runs as long as the blockchain exists. While the program is centralized, the utility creation and its execution is decentralized.
At full capacity on a 1gbps network Solana will generate 4 Petabytes of data per year
4 Petabytes == 4096 Terabytes
4096 Terabytes == 4,096,000 Gigabytes
Powered by Modern SSDs with 32 concurrent threads, therefore supporting 370,000 reads per second, or roughly 185,000 TPS 👀