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 @polo46 @dreamandghost
I ported a Bitcoin miner to an obscure CPU architecture something like 7 years ago, but hey, keep assuming I don't understand how it works ;)
5:31 PM - 19 Jan 2018
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