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Re:Bitcoin: Who owns it, who mines it, who’s breaking the law by edouard-harris on Friday October 15, 2021 @11:57AM (#28879177)
While that's certainly a long list of things, I'd be surprised if they added up to the six-orders-of-magnitude difference one would need to make these two costs remotely close to one another on a per-transaction basis. Bitcoin has its uses, but its comparative advantage does not lie in its superior energy efficiency as a medium for licit transactions.

(And surely "money trucks" here can only be meant metaphorically? The vast majority of US dollars only ever exist as entries in electronic ledgers anyway.)

Re:Bitcoin: Who owns it, who mines it, who’s breaking the law by rglover on Friday October 15, 2021 @06:26PM (#28883852)
The lightning network makes the entire throughput argument beyond irrelevant: https://lightning.network/