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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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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alright, let me tease apart a couple things what I'm saying is that energy / transaction isn't a useful figure transaction rate is a design choice, BTC is about 320gb, in ten years that doubles you can run a full validating node on a rasPI with a cable modem /
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