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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the exponentially growing energy and compute demands are basically only due to the mining rewards and, once those are finished, the transaction fees alone will not support increased energy usage (maybe? this is contrary to the maximalists argument I think but maybe this is straw)
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so basically, ok sure energy use didn't drop after the last halvenings, but once the block rewards are well an truly gone it's not going to keep going up unless the price of bitcoin does, alongside transactions, inflating the cost of doing stuff on the network is unimaginable...
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