i should be smarter than to argue with bitcoin maximalists about the energy intensity of bitcoin, but seriously, technologists, the industry has a problem with energy usage *even at this scale*. if it 'actually' scaled to replace everything it would be catastrophic.
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transaction rate is, in fact, irrelevant proof of waste secures the value of the ledger, block rewards and transaction fees incentivize miners to do so btc keeps blocks small to make running a full node affordable scaling at the second layer is tractable
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what I'm saying is that kWH/transaction is a nonsense metric kWH/(dollar value of the whole ledger) is actually relevant: you will see this stay roughly constant, which is what you would expect from difficulty adjustment
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Bitcoin SV solves all this. You could try Twetch and see the difference just in getting paid to tweet
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