First off, the numbers I cited were not theoretical, they were the observed network run rate at the time I posted.<p>Secondly, Bitcoin doesn&#x27;t have to scale up to Visa levels, at least not in 2016.  In 2016, it just has to scale up.  And there&#x27;s plenty of room to scale up.<p>Bitcoin has a growth plan that subsidizes the expansion of the network (via inflation and adoption) for many more decades.  In two decades, the Moore&#x27;s Law equivalent of a 1MB block size is a 16GB block size.   Even without additional scalability, Bitcoin can process a lot of transactions with 16GB blocks.