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My novice armchair estimate is that something like ZCash is broadly much less efficient than Bitcoin. Of course, no measure can go beyond a loose estimate.
by gt_ 9y ago
My novice armchair estimate is that something like ZCash is broadly much less efficient than Bitcoin. Of course, no measure can go beyond a loose estimate.
- AgentME 9y agoI don't think it makes any sense to try to compare the efficiency of different proof of work systems. Now you could compare the work that goes into synchronizing the blockchain between all nodes, but I'd expect that has a near-negligible environmental impact compared to all of the miners. (Individual Zcash transactions are a bigger file size than individual Bitcoin transactions if I remember right.)
- gt_ 9y agoOK I'm confused. Thank you though!