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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That's like saying it's fine if real-time rendered computer graphics require a nuclear power station to run a single machine, because it's totally worth it versus recorded video.
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and by real time rendered graphics powered by nuclear energy, we mean Mario bros. for the NES, not The Witcher 3.
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