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Goals

Background and strategic fit

Current Bitcoin platforms poor scalability, which have prevented them from dominating the market.  BTC's throughput is 7 tx / second, Etherum says it can handle 15 tx / second, but experience says that this is unlikely.   If RChain can achieve 10,000 tx/ sec - it will achieve significant adoption.

Ripple Throughput rivals Visa - May 11, 2017

http://www.livebitcoinnews.com/ripple-network-transaction-throughput-matches-visas/

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/ripple-and-xrp-are-more-stable-than-you-think_us_591cb3bee4b0b28a33f62915

Average transaction approval time is 3.7 seconds.  This is still slow, all things considered.  The Ripple network probably can return a consensus failed message fairly quickly, but still needs on average 4 seconds to clear consensus. This means that card swipes at a POS won't clear in time.  There are other benefits for banking institutions that are listed above.

Assumptions

Requirements

#TitleUser StoryImportanceNotes
110K transactions per secondDescribe the user and what they are trying to achieveMust Have
  • RChain platform needs to be fast.
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User interaction and design

Include any mockups, diagrams or visual designs relating to these requirements.

Questions

Below is a list of questions to be addressed as a result of this requirements document:

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(e.g. How we make users more aware of this feature?)Communicate the decision reached

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