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> built-in, straightforward payment rails.

Yeah. Crappy ones with high latency and high fees.

Solana transactions currently cost $0.00025 and can handle 50,000 transactions per second. For comparison visa handles 1700 TPS and MasterCard 5000.

Solana is proof-of-stake, right? I think the parent comment was talking about proof-of-work.