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Re:Realtime Bitcoin by biafra on Sunday May 28, 2017 @12:26PM (#14434993)
The transaction rate is not proportinal to the amount of power consumed.
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Re:Realtime Bitcoin by eru on Sunday May 28, 2017 @12:52PM (#14435134)
Not directly.

More popularity will lead to higher bitcoin prices, and that will indirectly to more power consumption for hashing until no-arbitrage equilibrium is restored.

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