JordanTNM on Nostr: Bitcoin is like The American Highway System. In theory, you can get home within 30 ...
Bitcoin is like The American Highway System.
In theory, you can get home within 30 minutes, in practice, it takes 1 hour and 30 minutes to get home.
That makes the guaranteed 45 minute backroad look more promising.
Are you sacrificing the possible 15 minutes that you could have, yes but in most cases you’re actually reclaiming 45 minutes of your life.
In theory, L1 transmits in 10 minutes, in practice you’re stuck in the Mempool for 30+ minutes, with Monero, it’s practically guaranteed 20 minutes every time*.
(*Unless you pay a zero fee, or some weird fluke happens, in which case it could be longer but usually isn’t)
Published at
2026-08-24 13:19:29 UTCEvent JSON
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