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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Have you ever researched bitcoin?
Yes. It's a neat proof of concept with lots of good ideas. It also has some catastrophic flaws.
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Cool, do you know what money is?
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