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.
great point. it’s still within a factor of 2, but, do you happen to know how far it actually can scale?
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https://utxos.org may interest you; you can decongest the network and provide the ability to winnow tx load asynchonously cooperatively in the future. using such techniques you can get infinite peak capacity in exchange for latency for fully unencumbered funds
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the way the contracts are set up using radix 4 trees (or other params) you have a pretty small chain overhead and can quickly bisect out offline/negligent parties. Hard to make an exact "X" scale factor, but IMO this is a big deal
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