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The figures for the bitcoin blockchain are public and monitored by most exchanges. They are at about 11000 transactions/hour[0] - ~3 transactions/second for the entire world.

The lightning network is a separate system for transactions denominated in bitcoin. It does nothing to modify the capacity of the bitcoin network, it creates a way to do transactions WITHOUT using the bitcoin network (except occasionally).

[0] https://bitinfocharts.com/bitcoin/



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