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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The difference is the Internet achieves hundreds of terabits per second of traffic, stores hundreds of exabytes of information, is used by most of the world's population, and has completely changed the course of humanity. The other processes Four. Transactions. Per. Second.
