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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It’s like you’re comparing the computing power of a languange with the computing power of an actual machine.
Bitcoin *is* a machine. A large, decentralized machine for processing financial transactions. Which is a task that a single Raspberry Pi can accomplish too (minus a bunch of neat features, but with better throughput and a similar database size).
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Note that I'm not talking about *cryptocurrency as a whole*, or some abstract notion of Bitcoin. I'm talking about the Bitcoin network, *today*, as it exists, and in particular all the miners that are part of it.
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