[aortega]

>t still completely unacceptable and ridiculous

55 kilowatts is a single car. One car. How many datacenters has your bank? You have a very mistaken idea of computing power and efficiency if you think a Raspberry Pi is more efficient than a server CPU.

[kkielhofner]

What’s next? Comparing square footage of homes? Airline miles? I try to stick to things that are even remotely comparable.

My bank has 67 million customers and hundreds of products. The average US adult does 2.3 financial transactions a day. They also have branches, customer service reps, etc because real people in the real world need those things.

I’m sure they have much more compute because they’re handling many orders of magnitude more volume at transaction rates no blockchain could comprehend (let’s not start on Solana, please).

They also have the novel concept of complying with things like regulation, compliance, the law, and actually doing something about fraud. This also takes significant resources.

Yes, given that a Raspberry Pi is capable of running a full Ethereum node on an individual node basis at 10 watts all in it is the most efficient. All 5500 online, distributed, Ethereum nodes utilizing an aggregate of 55 kW is the most efficient power consumption scenario.

A server can’t keep the ECC RAM warm with 10 watts.