100X Bitcoin energy use would mean 'absurd' $20M BTC price — developer
For Bitcoin energy usage to increase to absorb more of the world's waste energy, its market cap would end up being $420 trillion, calculates Sjors Provoost. A new contributor to the Bitcoin (BTC) energy debate says that 1 BTC would have to cost $20 million to use 100 times its current energy demands.In a Twitter debate on July 18, Sjors Provoost, a Bitcoin developer and author of “Bitcoin: A Work in Progress,” cast doubt on the largest cryptocurrency’s future energy use.Bitcoin could survive on "waste energy breadcrumbs"How much energy Bitcoin uses to survive has become a topic of friction....
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