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		skohan on March 19, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: WallStreetBets members adopt 3,500 gorillas in six... How many orders of magnitude more transactions are handled by the financial system compared to bitcoin?

ric2b on March 19, 2021 [–]

Is that relevant?

Neither of those systems have an energy usage that is directly proportional to transaction count, _especially_ Bitcoin.

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