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Re:Just 137 crypto miners use 2.3% of total U.S. power by rspeele on Friday February 09, 2024 @12:40PM (#39317778)
It's meaningful since Bitcoin is the most popular, most energy-consuming crypto and it has this limitation, with no plans of changing.

"Well, it's supposed to suck like that" doesn't change that Bitcoin is consuming tremendous amounts of energy to serve very, very few customers.

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