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> Measuring energy use per transactions makes no sense, as mining energy consumption is not related to the number of transactions processed.

Sure, measure energy use per amount of money transferred. That's not going to be very nice either.

> Also a huge portion of the energy used by bitcoin would otherwise be wasted.

Oh, come on. Now you're just trolling. It would have been used for something else that most likely wouldn't be waste, like in factories or in hospitals and such.



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