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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Wow that's bull... It's amazing how wrong a person can be. But thanks for illustrating.
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That's exactly the point. You cannot do the exact math on either side.
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Thankfully, the math can be off by a couple orders of magnitude and the conclusion is still valid: Bitcoin is a hopelessly broken design that fundamentally does not scale.
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