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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"Hey man, you can't have the internet because phone line copper is too skinny." Or, "Holy Sh#t we're running out of tin! The entire industrial revolution is over!" Or, "You cant make a computer with a soft internal memory, tubes are too expensive"
Someone doesn't understand the concept of orders of magnitude. It's okay, I get it, numbers are hard.
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