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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Ever looked up the power consumption of email? Buckle-Up! Let me know if you can’t find the data.
Thankfully, all of the world's email servers combined handle about a million emails per second, and that's not counting spam. Not four. https://www.talosintelligence.com/reputation_center/email_rep …
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Bingo! 20+ years will do that with innovative technology. Now imagine what bitcoin will be like in another 12 
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You seem to forget that the world's first email server didn't require a billion watts to run. No, email hasn't gotten a million times more efficient since it was invented. It wasn't a crap design to begin with. It scaled up. In fact it scales up linearly with message volume.
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