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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The Nazi's were pretty efficient. Efficiency isn't the goal.
If the Nazis we're *a billion times more efficient* at something then, you know, it'd be worth figuring out what they did to achieve that, because, you know, being evil doesn't explain nine orders of magnitude.
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You really love your orders of magnitude. I wonder what your optimum number is for appropriate use of electricity (which btw, appropriate use is for whatever the user deems).
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1000J/transaction sounds vaguely palatable (definitely not ideal), so let's say that or less. There's some wiggle room. Bitcoin is just so far from any sane number it's not even funny.
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Engineers be engineering but not economicing.
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