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by nyanloutre 2559 days ago
You forget that it would use the same energy to produce a 1MB block than a 1GB block
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And we've seen how controversial block size changes are.
So few people understand this. Doubling blocksize doubles the capacity, and therefore the efficiency of the network.
At the current efficiency level, the capacity would have to grow thousand-fold before it even approaches the efficiency needed. Not even lightning would provide the amount of capacity required IMO.