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 very first web server in existence, which ran on a NeXT computer with a power consumption of 300 watts, could already process more requests per second than Bitcoin processes transactions per second today. The technologies we use today *scaled up*. Bitcoin does *not* scale.
Lightning is a hack (and no longer truly Bitcoin), but it won't work either, because it requires Bitcoin transactions to settle disputes and resolve errors, and Bitcoin isn't even good enough to scale up to handle that at a global scale.
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You miss the hole point. Mining is about securing the network, Bitcoin protocol solve the byzantine problem. Now for Lighting network it is bitcoin. As much html5 is part of the internet.
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You miss the whole point (you should also learn English). Bitcoin is stuck with a non-scalable design, and layering things on top won't fix the underlying problem, merely paper over it. Stop arguing for a broken design and find an altcoin with a better design to support.
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no longer truly bitcoin? Ah.... one true scotsman logical fallacy.
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