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CrazyEyeJoe  ·  1555 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Blockchain, the amazing solution for almost nothing

    it does so at effectively zero cost

If this were true you would have a point, but what about this from the article:

    Carrying out a payment with Visa requires about 0.002 kilowatt-hours; the same payment with bitcoin uses up 906 kilowatt-hours

I'm sure this is in large part due to Bitcoin's popularity and high number of users, but on a smaller scale this will be true for any blockchain application, and the power consumption will just keep increasing over time. This is not a trivial point.