how much damage financial and environmental have politicians and military have caused over the last 5 thousand years? yep, take that into account in your calculations.
i'll repeat and lets see how much good faith you have: payment channels encapsulate potentially unlimited amount of transactions which completely refutes all your calculations.
edit - I haven't, and my last comment contained nothing to do with per-transaction figures.
I've asked what basis you made your initial claim on, and provided several options where I've looked - transaction rate as currently happens with bitcoin, market cap and daily volume of transactions. None look even vaguely reasonable - so again, what was your initial claim calculated on? What measure were you using and where did you get your numbers? Have you actually tried to work it out?
> i'll repeat and lets see how much good faith you have: payment channels encapsulate potentially unlimited amount of transactions which completely refutes all your calculations.
We have current use, how does that actually compare to the current banking system you were saying uses more energy?
They seem fairly important to me, but OK, what metric are you comparing on to claim that the current banking system is using far more raw energy?
Bitcoin has a market cap of $70B and daily volume of transactions of $10B.
NYSE covers about $20T alone for just 4000 companies. Scaled up, bitcoin would be over 10% of world energy use.
SWIFT seems to deal with about $5T per day https://www.fincen.gov/news_room/rp/files/Appendix_D.pdf so that'd be bitcoin taking about 20% of total global energy use if scaled up.
By what measure do you want to back up the claim that the current system is far more energy intensive? I'm trying to find one and honestly struggling.