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PlantDadManGuy@lemmy.world 1 month agoYou’re arguing in bad faith and I’m not going to put up with your stupid straw man. Your statement was that it requires 700 kilowatt hours for a single transaction and that is blatantly false. You seem to ignore the obvious fact that Bitcoin can be transferred unlimited number of times and you do not have to re-mine the Bitcoin every single time you transfer it. As I said earlier, I already agree with you that Bitcoin sucks and you’re wasting your time arguing with me over semantics.
Magnetic_dud@discuss.tchncs.de 3 weeks ago
Can you do a transfer without mining a block?
No, it needs to be included in any freshly mined block.
Can you include an unlimited amount of transactions in a block to minimize the wasted energy?
No, it’s hardcoded to around 1 mb and since the average is 300 bytes, that translates to ~3000
Can you mine a Bitcoin without wasting an immense amount of energy?
No.
So, by math, you take that immense amount of energy and divide by ~3000 transactions.
You can’t just take in consideration the 3 watts used by your computer in the 300 milliseconds used to submit the transfer, need to consider the whole network
I would be happy to learn if it’s possible to transfer them without including the transaction in a block, that would be groundbreaking and then the electricity used would be 10000x less