The melting of polar ice due to global warming is affecting Earth’s rotation and could have an impact on precision timekeeping, a new study says.
  • deadbeef79000@lemmy.nzEnglish
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    9 months ago

    It’s mainly about how many transactions can be packed into those seconds.

    That number, once upon a time, was less than one: one transaction took more than one second to process.

    Now, with modern computational power, that number is millions, hundreds of millions even.

    TL;DR: faster computers faster transactions.