[alonmower]

Mmm, those people would continue to exist even if they didn't need to work to support fiat. And I don't buy the fact that not having banking jobs would affect the overall population all that much. If you really want an apples to apples comparison you'd need to find numbers for:

- Energy required to harvest and process hard currency - Energy required to run the servers that support electronic transactions for fiat

Then divide that by the overall value of fiat vs bitcoin to see how costly they are per unit of value