[corkoman]

Achilles heels that will prevent it from being widely scaled out.

Over 100 million people own bitcoin - over 30,000 nodes running the bitcoin blockchain.

Sounds kinda widely scaled out to me.

[BiglyCommentary]

How many transactions per second are occurring worldwide? How many transactions per day occur worldwide?

Those are the only numbers that count. Not how many have bitcoins the squirreled away in a virtual shoe box years ago.

over 30,000 nodes running the bitcoin blockchain.

Counting the number of miners is bogus.

What is the maximum transaction rate for bitcoin?