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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want to re-phrase "nobody"? Because that is absolutely wrong.
Nope. Literally nobody (not counting any silly people doing it at a loss). It is a net waste of money to mine bitcoin on a computer. The only way to mine profitably is with ASICs and if you have cheap electricity.
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"literally nobody" ... "not counting people that do it". Yep.
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Yes, I'm sure 5 people do it for fun and losses, like anything. Doesn't change the argument.
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