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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Replying to @marcan42
How much power do you think our entire global banking system consumes, conversions of hours and miles and so forth taken into consideration? Yes, as a species we spend enormous energy on transactions. Quantification is great, but doesn't change our nature.
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Replying to @dreamandghost
At current Bitcoin energy-guzzling levels, transactions cost $33 worth of electricity with normal electricity pricing (as banks would get). Which they obviously don't with traditional banking. Therefore traditional banking is more efficient than Bitcoin.
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Replying to @marcan42 @dreamandghost
Wow that's bull... It's amazing how wrong a person can be. But thanks for illustrating.
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Replying to @infosecatrandom @dreamandghost
Feel free to actually do the math and show me exactly how I'm wrong.
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Replying to @marcan42 @dreamandghost
That's exactly the point. You cannot do the exact math on either side.
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Replying to @infosecatrandom @dreamandghost
Thankfully, the math can be off by a couple orders of magnitude and the conclusion is still valid: Bitcoin is a hopelessly broken design that fundamentally does not scale.
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Replying to @marcan42 @dreamandghost
How exactly are you doing the math on traditional economy? Im seeing *no* numbers at all!
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You don't need to do any math to know that bank transfers and similar "traditional" mechanisms of value exchange do not have a marginal cost anywhere near $30. Otherwise banks would be bleeding cash by completing many transactions for pennies if not for free.
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