What has just been announced, Dero-Atlantis, proposes a 3 second block time, 60 seconds for a fully confirmed transaction, and 500 transactions per second.
From where I am standing, this looks like huge news.
For comparison, transaction times per second:
Bitcoin: 3 to 4
Ethereum: 20
PayPal: 193
Visa: ~1,667 (actual value; claim is up to 56,000 technically feasible)
This puts Dero somewhere between PayPal and Visa.
If this is technically feasible for Dero, this basically solves the transactions per second problem so often reported in the press for blockchain. And furthermore, ON CHAIN (an important detail). That is very big news. And Dero is not even sold as having a payments system as its main feature.
A payments system that fast is capable of being used as a major payments system. First off, transactions per second, nearly a third of Visa's actual value. That puts it into the very big league indeed. Second, confirmation time. As has been pointed out elsewhere, for small transactions you don't need to wait for full confirmation. Buying a coffee or some groceries would just take a few seconds; for major transactions, you'd have to wait up to a minute (which sometimes does happen for credit card payments, especially if verification is required).
Perhaps that is not technically feasible, I don't know, and I am nowhere near technically competent to judge (three second block time???). But the technical team has delivered on its promises so far. If Dero lives up to this promise, the issues this month with the hashrate are going to pale into absolute insignificance...
I agree and I think a good amount of people seem to be missing this (and other updates), as well as the fact that the network hashrate went to 100MH in a short period of time without a hiccup. I didn't even see a pool report issues about chain splits or anything.