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by toomim 462 days ago
It's already about 1000000x higher than it needs to be. Keep in mind that all it does is prevent double-spends.

There are other ways to avoid double-spends, too, like taking the party to court.

Mining does not need to be incentivizes nearly as much as it is right now for bitcoin to still function as p2p cash.