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[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 15 points 1 day ago (2 children)
[–] nexguy@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Not promoting just saying that this is misinformation. Transactions are done in bulk and on the lightning network at a tiny fraction of what you suggest.

Edit: BTC itself can only process 8 or so transactions per second(hence the high energy demand per transaction), the actual number of monetary lightening network transactions (grouped up into a these large BTC transactions) is close to a million.

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 day ago

Didn't know it was that bad. Knew it was bad, but that's depressingly bad.