• k_o_t
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    3 years ago

    sure, but you could also send billions globally using significantly less energy…

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      3 years ago

      Not so fast and cheap though. Previously when countries were moving gold to/from USA by ships it were also very expensive in terms of energy transactions.

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        3 years ago

        i rather meant other cryptocurrencies…

        but if you’re a billionaire trying to move a billion to another address, 1MWH doesn’t seem that much

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          3 years ago

          Fun thing that the same functionality would be with lower amount of miners, spikes in price lead to increase in miners amount and hashrate.

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        3 years ago

        I can’t think of a slower or more expensive way lol