&gt; If there&#x27;s enough customer adoption where there&#x27;s a need to handle that kind of volume you can rest assured there will be infrastructure to support it and instead of a loose group of &quot;core devs&quot; there will be an official salaried department (at visa? :) ) working on this full time.<p>But since we&#x27;re talking about &quot;decentralized systems&quot;, the question is who owns the blockchain infrastructure. Is the blockchain going to be serviceable on home desktop PCs, or are you going to need a datacenter?<p>To really drive this example home, could you please quote me a price on building out a Tier 1 datacenter with gigabit fiber? Because last I checked most people don&#x27;t have that kind of money in their sofa cushion. And it isn&#x27;t even <i>remotely feasible</i> to acquire that sort of infrastructure anonymously.<p>Yet that&#x27;s what it&#x27;s going to take to hit 56,000 tps on a blockchain any time this decade or perhaps even after [1]:<p>&gt; Next month, the worldwide semiconductor industry will formally acknowledge what has become increasingly obvious to everyone involved: Moore&#x27;s law, the principle that has powered the information-technology revolution since the 1960s, is nearing its end.<p>A common mistake is confusing &quot;popularity&quot; with decentralization. BitTorrent is both popular and decentralized. It doesn&#x27;t take a datacenter and a 10-machine cluster to participate in a BT swarm as a full-on peer. As an aside, it&#x27;s no surprise the creator of BitTorrent is staunchly against scaling Bitcoin in datacenters [2].<p>[1]: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nature.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;the-chips-are-down-for-moore-s-law-1.19338" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nature.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;the-chips-are-down-for-moore-s-la...</a><p>[1]: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.agner.org&#x2F;optimize&#x2F;blog&#x2F;read.php?i=417" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.agner.org&#x2F;optimize&#x2F;blog&#x2F;read.php?i=417</a><p>[2]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;medium.com&#x2F;@bramcohen&#x2F;bitcoin-s-ironic-crisis-32226a85e39f" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;medium.com&#x2F;@bramcohen&#x2F;bitcoin-s-ironic-crisis-32226a...</a>