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Imagine an online payment system that doesn't require 0.13% of the world's electricity in order to support ~5M active users
Before you @ me with "actually decentralization": if you're a techno-libertarian, you should care about the decentralization of *power*. If BTC were to be adopted as a major currency (it won't) it would dramatically *centralize* power into the hands of a handful of rent seekers
If you hate taxes/rents when you have to pay them, but you love them when you're the recipient, ask yourself whether your stance comes from idealistic conviction, or just plain greed
Imagine a global Server automatically distributing a Car and a House to every of the 80mio new earth-borns per year.
In Canada the penny coin was abolished in part because it cost more than a penny to make; free crypto may be not so ‘free’ in any sense (cents 
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François, DM me if you'd like to chat - greater is coming.
The most amusing element of the bitcoin craze is the idea 'governments can't do anything to it.' LOL! Even if, in a technical sense a blockchain is hard to completely eradicate since even a single machine running it would count, it can be rendered completely useless.
The only good thing to come from BTC is block chain. Nearly everything else is hot air.
thank god satoshi invented the database
I did the calculation the other week and at the time one $20 transaction required 628 KWh. That's watt hours, btw. You could run an LED 100W lumen equiv bulb for almost 2 days straight for that amount of energy of one confirmation.
100J/s power rate for an hour is 100Wh. So more like almost 9 months for the LED.
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