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by nostrfanboi 1079 days ago
Bitcoin is like a digital kilowatt-hour that you can spend anywhere.
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For the system to work it would require the correct incentives. If we could reconstitute the energy consumed to produce the bitcoin it might work.
except it's a digital kilowatt hour that requires wasting a kilowatt hour of energy per transaction to solve imaginary problems
> solve imaginary problems

Securing a ledger isn't an imaginary problem.

Business love to adopt card payments because of how big a pain it is to secure cash. It is not a trivial problem to protect money.