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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Please find me another "large scale" project with a similar level of overhead to achieve such a trivially low throughput purely due to poor design and momentum (doing better than Bitcoin is trivial; many altcoins do so).
