SuddenlyC4

Do you speak to your parents in Japanese or English?

It looks like there are usually around 2000 transactions per block.

Hmm. You are right. I believe it's around 300,000 transactions, which works out to around 150 blocks. That sounds about right. I think it's ~1 block per 10 minutes and there are 144 of those in 24 hours.

That's amazingly wasteful.

Cool, thanks! Good luck at the nationals--we really hope you make the olympic team!