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Re:Coinbase outages by bb88 on Wednesday May 19, 2021 @07:36PM (#27215772)
> if miner will spand the same energy whether it's for 1 or 1 trillion transactions -- then energy per transaction metric is zero signal.

So? A running car consumes gas even when it's idle. My parents used to measure MPG at every tank refill, which was a combination of miles, idle, braking, etc.

We can certainly take an average of transactions to get a reasonable number for watts/transaction.

> no, actually, it's an opinion.

... which was stated as fact.

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Re:Coinbase outages by keymone on Thursday May 20, 2021 @12:43AM (#27217461)
> A running car consumes gas even when it's idle.

Bad extrapolation of analogy, but still - how convenient that you decided to focus on the lower bound. How about the high bound? Can a car go trillions of miles per gallon? Because Bitcoin block can contain trillions of transactions every 10 minutes.

> We can certainly take an average of transactions to get a reasonable number for watts/transaction.

You can, it’s just not useful.

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Re:Coinbase outages by bb88 on Thursday May 20, 2021 @02:09AM (#27217976)
> You can, it’s just not useful.

Yes, yes it is. Stating an opinion as if it's fact, again?

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