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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How much energy do banks consume?
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And in absolute terms? As layer two technologies continue to help crypto scale you're on board?
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I'm on board whenever an altcoin figures out how to make the cryptocurrency (not "crypto", cryptography is doing fine thank you) concept scale. *Bitcoin* is fundamentally broken. Someone else might solve the problem.
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