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Thanks, another interesting number would be number of people employed in each industry. I found for US banks it is about 2 million: http://www.usbanklocations.c

by nonbel 9y ago

Thanks, another interesting number would be number of people employed in each industry. I found for US banks it is about 2 million: http://www.usbanklocations.com/bank-rank/number-of-employees.html http://www.usbanklocations.com/bank-rank/number-of-employees... I have no estimate for bitcoin in the US (I'd guess 1k - 100k?). Also at the end you slip into comparing worldwide vs US numbers. So both energy and transactions/s will be higher for the correct comparison.

PeterisP 9y ago
It's not appropriate to look at the number of people working in the finance industry, as the vast, vast majority of finance industry is not employed in transactions; almost all the headcount goes to handle lending, credit, risks and investments. A few percent seems appropriate from what I recall in the banks I've seen, so <100k people maybe for all the payments in US.