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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Seriously, what is wrong with you people. Do you truly believe it takes *five gigawatts* to run the "world's most secure and resilient financial system" that can barely handle the transaction volume of a supermarket?
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The only reason Bitcoin wastes so much power is because **it is broken**. Any engineer with more than two brain cells can see that this is just a shitty design and *not* some kind of inherent cost of such a system, nor even remotely worth accepting.
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You're not paying for any of Bitcoin's benefits and qualities, you're paying for the *mistakes of the designers*. Stop wasting money and contributing to carbon emissions and at least pick a slightly better altcoin or wait until one of them is shown to be a good approach.
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I think, they just love the idea and illusion. Everyone is talking about decentralization, but nearly 99.99% of them don't have any clue what they are talking about.
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