Visa + MasterCard togehter: 62 billion transactions per year = ~2000 transactions per second (there are much higher peaks)
It doesn't make any sense to aim at 400 transactinos per minute = 7 transactions per second for NEM. Even if these high amounts of transactions won't happen in near future, NEM should be ready for it.
Or do you wan't to recode the basics when you notice that people are actually really using NEM a lot?
I am sure Visa & Co don't use a normal PC for that :D
Well yes, thats true of course :D
I am just thinking there should be a theoretical solution for this problem. I wouldn't know how to answer if somebody new to NEM would ask me: And how will that work if NEM gets really useful for every day stuff?
Contrary to what it might look like, VISA has simpler task, as they are centralized. In most cases they DON'T have to deal with conflict resolution.
double spending is almost impossible (actually I'm wondering if anyone has tried that), and even if that'll happen,
they have (off-line) ways to prosecute potential attacker.