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@NfNitLoop ("Cody C. #BLM") retweeted:

@ipvkyte ("Alexander Kyte") wrote:

A Tesla gets 4.1 miles per KWh. So one transaction costs 2,546 miles. Seattle to Boston is 3k miles.

Paying for a burger with bitcoin has the same environmental cost as driving that burger to you from the other coast.

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@smdiehl ("Stephen Diehl") replied to a tweet by @smdiehl:

And the scale of this waste has some scary numbers attached to it. A single bitcoin transaction alone consumes 621 KWh, or half a million times more energy consumption than a credit card payment. (8/)