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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Please point out a network protocol that requires "layers" to scale up. Last I checked SMTP, HTTP, XMPP, etc. have no problem scaling linearly with user count without requiring new "layered" protocols on top to fix underlying design flaws. We added a layer (TLS) for security.
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Yes, they're are layers, but they aren't a patch for scalability. They each serve a specific function. We add new layers to add features and reach the complete product, not to fix scalability problems in the underlying layers.
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