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Re:El Salvador adopts Bitcoin as official currency, first co... by zsmi on Tuesday September 07, 2021 @02:49PM (#28448417)
That's new to me. It seems the argument hinges on this fact, "Bitcoin could therefore theoretically handle around 220 million transactions annually."

I think the assumption that there will be no innovation in this space, optimizations will never decrease the amount of computing resources required for a bitcoin transaction, and nothing can be done, is probably incorrect.

Some prospects:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitcoin_scalability_problem#Ef...

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Re:El Salvador adopts Bitcoin as official currency, first co... by okl on Tuesday September 07, 2021 @03:05PM (#28448580)
The pollution is happening right now. You must realize that appealing to a hypothetical future solution doesn't excuse us from our obligation to do things right in the present.
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Re:El Salvador adopts Bitcoin as official currency, first co... by lostmsu on Tuesday September 07, 2021 @07:09PM (#28450969)
Can you outline how that could have worked for cars, trains, and all other automation, which were all extremely polluting and inefficient, and were slowly refined over a course of XX century?
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