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Re:WallStreetBets members adopt 3,500 gorillas in six days by skohan on Thursday March 18, 2021 @09:12PM (#26509295)
How many orders of magnitude more transactions are handled by the financial system compared to bitcoin?
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Re:WallStreetBets members adopt 3,500 gorillas in six days by ric2b on Thursday March 18, 2021 @10:06PM (#26509569)
Is that relevant?

Neither of those systems have an energy usage that is directly proportional to transaction count, _especially_ Bitcoin.

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