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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Another way to put it, the problem of increasing the throughput (needed) is orthogonal to the problem of reducing power usage (also needed, with not much movement on it)
Sure, but almost any other system *scales* with power. Yes, the two problems are orthogonal, but they *shouldn't be*. The design should scale with increased power consumption.
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What you're saying is that you disagree with the fundamental design that said "more power = more lockout of bad actors". The single defining property of the system. ok, it's your opinion, but no one solved the problem bitcoin solved with your thinking.
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No, I'm saying that *as well* as more lockout of bad actors it should *also* increase throughput.
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