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You are correct! The other person is wrong. Transaction volume has almost zero relationship with mining energy usage (there are some very subtle connections, but those nuances are …

This is a stupid comparison. The number of transactions can be increased by a factor of a 1000 easily while holding the amount of energy expended constant.

Oh weird, this exact comment was also posted on reddit (r/business) What's going on?

I don't think the diameter of a DNA strand is 2.5nm...

Befuddles eh? I'll just leave this here... http://www.befuddled.org/

Co-author writing here. Although we think Bitcoin has (probably) a bright future, the book is really just about explaining how it works (the protocol and the cryptography behind it…