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#892 Bitcoin & Climate Change w/ Chris Larsen

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Is There a Linear Relationship Between More Users and More Energy Consumption?

The legacy finance system, i think you and i both would agree on this, is pretty non controversial. There' very linear relationship rat you need more a t m, ne, more banksne, more data centers to support more users with bit coin. To get the four cent energy consumption globaly, it would cost about 800 billion dollars. And the miners just don't have that money. I think that's where the bitcoin comuty says,. even if fee spiked and bitcoin went up a hundred x, they literally wouldn't have enough money to buy four % of global energy.

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