[rtpg]

Right now a single transaction on the bitcoin network uses as much energy as powering 7 homes for a day.

There's infrastructure costs, but Visa's network doesn't need that much to process a single POST request

[F_r_k]

Do you have a source on that ? It seems impressive !

[noncoml]

It got shared a bit further down the thread:

https://digiconomist.net/bitcoin-energy-consumption