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> I'd be willing to bet that the Bitcoin blockchain consumes less energy then the global State apparatus surrounding fiat currencies & gold.

No. Not even close, if you're counting per transaction. And you can't sanely claim that Bitcoin would obsolete things like armies and vaults.

The only sense in which Bitcoin consumes less energy than money is that fewer people use Bitcoin.



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