Re:Bitcoin Energy Consumption Index
by Retric on Saturday August 26, 2017 @06:04PM
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Hash costs are a large fraction of overall costs, but not 100%. Network bandwidth is not free. The more transactions the more beefy the full nodes must be, worse every node pays the full costs or lose out on some transaction fees.
But, it gets worse simply maintaining value takes hashing power to avoid a bad actor double spending and destroying faith in the system. Thus, even as a value store you need to pay for large scale hashing.
But, it gets worse simply maintaining value takes hashing power to avoid a bad actor double spending and destroying faith in the system. Thus, even as a value store you need to pay for large scale hashing.