A Tesla gets 4.1 miles per KWh. So one transaction costs 2,546 miles. Seattle to Boston is 3k miles.
Paying for a burger with bitcoin has the same environmental cost as driving that burger to you from the other coast.
And the scale of this waste has some scary numbers attached to it. A single bitcoin transaction alone consumes 621 KWh, or half a million times more energy consumption than a credit card payment. (8/)
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No idea how to introduce myself to new followers other than to keep doing my work. But I feel I should say something about myself.
So for now, let me just tell you about the craziest thing that happened to me...
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