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Re:Taproot, Bitcoin’s long-anticipated upgrade, has activated by skybrian on Monday November 15, 2021 @06:33PM (#29234426)
The prize money flowing to miners doesn’t change so energy usage won’t change. (You can think of this as fixed overhead that’s proportional to Bitcoin’s price, regardless of what transactions do.)

However, the transactions do more so arguably the cost/benefit ratio improves a bit. Measuring this might be hard without a clear definition of what the benefit of a transaction is.

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