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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For starters, without a ~4 transaction per second, hardcoded, design limit. That particular design "feature" is the biggest problem with Bitcoin right now. Yes, Bitcoin pioneered a lot of interesting concepts. It also has some glaring, ridiculous design flaws.
Bitcoin is an experiment run amok. It should've never been used in production. Then again, this is how we got IPv4 too. Humans will never learn.
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I don’t understand. What is “production”? Are you saying you think everyone adopting Bitcoin is wrong, and you are right, because of the low transaction speed? Or because of the energy consumption? Both?
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"Production" is the real world, at scale. Nobody is adopting Bitcoin for what is literally the first sentence of the abstract of the paper that introduced it, today. Its design was never capable of achieving what it set out to achieve, at scale.
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