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Re:Just 137 crypto miners use 2.3% of total U.S. power by earthling8118 on Friday February 09, 2024 @10:43PM (#39323370)
How would the power usage of bitcoin scale if it did serve every American? Until that question has an answer I don't think this argument can be considered valid. It's an incredible waste as it is, but just dismissing it outright doesn't make sense. If the number of transactions scaled up would the power usage become more reasonable?
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Re:Just 137 crypto miners use 2.3% of total U.S. power by ben_w on Saturday February 10, 2024 @05:44AM (#39325171)
Bitcoin by itself cannot serve every American, regardless of power consumption, and that's by design.

It can't even serve every lunch in Vermont without extra layers running on top of it.

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