May 26, 2024

The final 40k blocks (to block 840,000) or 122,066,968 txs took 27 minutes. That was the fastest rate yet, at 4,520,998 txs/min vs. previous runs at around 3,100,000 txs/min . I attribute this to two things. (1) a lot of unspendable outputs (jpegs) that don't get validated or have signatures, and (2) we don't execute taproot scripts, so these signatures aren't getting verified. So this run should have really been closer to 35 minutes.