to create a blockchain for developers to have applications that can power many many transactions our team also runs a scaling test Network which is continually testing the bounds of what's capable on the Bitcoin blockchain they've been mining blocks on the scaling test network that are 2.7 to 6 million transactions per block and if that's sustainable which we believe it is and more on the main net you're going to have theoretical throughput that exceeds 6,000 transactions a second and that's what as a developer you want to