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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Good job. Now explain and justify how decentralized trust requires and warrants a *one billion times* more overhead and this isn't just a symptom of a terribly broken design.
