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Re:A faster, more efficient cryptocurrency by trsfgbb on Monday February 18, 2019 @10:14PM (#19196346)
>pathetic ~10 transactions per second.

It's only an artificial limit of Core fork of Bitcoin.

Increasing it to 10 000 transactions per second doesn't use more energy for mining. https://www.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/7nn5wa/bitcoin_cash_is...

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Re:A faster, more efficient cryptocurrency by ForHackernews on Tuesday February 19, 2019 @06:07AM (#19198134)
Right, so bitcoin main stands out as especially terrible, even among the ecosystem of terribly inefficient PoW cryptocurrencies.
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