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Re:Bitcoin mining used more water than New York City last year by TaylorAlexander on Thursday December 07, 2023 @04:41PM (#38562181)
Bitcoin can handle $4T in transfers a day?
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Re:Bitcoin mining used more water than New York City last year by lolbase on Friday December 08, 2023 @04:01PM (#38574330)
Should be no problem, so long as the average transfer is about $7m.

Realistically, it'd happen using L2 solutions, which would negate the comparison to FedWire.

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Re:Bitcoin mining used more water than New York City last year by TheDudeMan on Tuesday December 19, 2023 @05:58PM (#38703123)
At ~700,000 transactions per day, if the avg txn value is $6M, then yes.
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