
SLP487 Bitcoin Mining Energy Debate - Digiconomist and Ben Gagnon
Stephan Livera Podcast
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The Future of Lightning Payments
In order to bridge the gap with the regular financial system, you need in order to have a comparable energy consumption per transaction, you need thousands of more transactions per second. In practice, we're seeing that a lot of people aren't using Bitcoin in that way and are leaving their money at exchanges. What is the real added capacity of the Lightning Network? If you account for all those limitations, that's something that has been seen over time.
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