Bitcoin consumes 4,000,000,000 W of power to process four transactions per second. A single Raspberry Pi with a database can do an order of magnitude more on 5W. Think about that next time you wonder if it's a good design.
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4G Joules? Watts are a measure of energy over time. 4 transactions per second would be 4G watts
Bitcoin consumes (4,000,000,000 W of power) to process (four transactions per second). 4,000,000,000 W = 4 transactions / sec 1,000,000,000 W = 1 transaction / sec 1,000,000,000 J = 1 transaction
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This means 277.8 kWh are consumed per transaction. What a boondoggle.
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“1.21 gigawatts?!” I could take 4 trips in time on that.
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