They don't even have new FUD.

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> Bitcoin

The largest and longest running electronic payment system that tolerates byzantine faults today is

Bitcoin. Bitcoin provides a very high degree of resiliency and security through its consensus mechanism.

However, this comes at the expense of two challenges.

First, Bitcoin requires a large amount of energy consumption and compute power due to its

permissionless proof-of-work consensus algorithm (Bitcoin nodes can join and leave at will and can be

operated by anyone). This is not an essential component for a centralized payment system which

operates in a permissioned setting, and a central bank could leverage other BFT algorithms which avoid

the large costs.

Second, Bitcoin is a single cluster system that does not support parallelization or partitioning. Both

factors cause Bitcoin to have high latency and low throughput. Today, Bitcoin can only accommodate

approximately 7 transactions per second with latency ranging from 10 minutes to one hour, depending

on the probability threshold the payee requires to consider a decision containing a payment final

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https://www.federalreserve.gov/econres/feds/files/2025012pap.pdf

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lowest number of txns for highest consumption of energy .. that is what makes it like a real life organism .. #friction

Exact opposite of digital copying machine !

They need count the power consumption of the US military when comparing USD and Bitcoin. I wonder how much power all those Nuclear tests consumed back in the day 🤨

The power wasn't consumed. Just moved. And to where?

Kinetic energy to potential energy in the Nevada desert.