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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You can’t compare the two things! That’s fucking ridiculous.
How is it ridiculous? They both accomplish the same thing (managing the transfer of value tokens). One has a lot of nice properties like decentralization, but is **nine orders of magnitude** less efficient, which is batshit insane.
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