Gavin Andresen - 2011-02-28 22:48:33

80 transactions per second is 6.9 million transactions per day.  That is a LOT.

PayPal was doing about 2 million transactions per day in 2008; if there are three times as many bitcoin transactions as PayPal transactions in a few years that would be a very good problem to have, and I'm confident "we" would figure out how to deal with lots of transactions.