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by jlokier 1850 days ago
Think about that 1.2MWh per transaction.

Compare it with the power consumption of video gaming. They are not even in the same ballpark, not remotely.

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It's absurd. repeating what I said elsewhere - my desktop at home has a 650W PSU. It would take ~76 days of full power for that to consume as much energy as a single BTC transaction.