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Re:Cambridge Bitcoin Electricity Consumption Index by ashtonkem on Wednesday February 10, 2021 @10:40PM (#26098017)
Unfortunately for Bitcoin, it needs more than “many multiples” in order to actually handle function as a currency. At 4tps they’re several orders of magnitude short of what the market actually needs.
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Re:Cambridge Bitcoin Electricity Consumption Index by uh-quan on Thursday February 11, 2021 @01:43PM (#26105475)
That's why second-layer technologies like the Lightning Network are being built.

Bitcoin doesn't have to function as a currency to be wildly successful (since being a currency isn't the only relevant use case), but with second layer networks it will be able to.

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