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I hardly think so. Try scaling up Bitcoin to the world's current volume of transactions and you'll find it uses vastly more electricity than traditional banking systems use.


We are working on it, so watch this space. The power consumption will not increase linearly, because of tier 2 & 3 solutions. The key is that blockchain is automated. With traditional centralised trust systems, you need buildings full of people running everything.


Buildings full of people are a joke compared to the massive amounts of power wasted on mining.


You will scale the blockchain by .... not using the blockchain. Okay.




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