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Bitcoin cannot replace banks, even at full adoption we would need banks for loans, investments, financial planning, etc. Bitcoin could replace Visa, but it uses
by GhostVII 9y ago
Bitcoin cannot replace banks, even at full adoption we would need banks for loans, investments, financial planning, etc. Bitcoin could replace Visa, but it uses orders of magnitude more energy per transaction. So yes, it is an environmental disaster. I don't see any possible way that a decentralized system that is secured by doing useless computations could ever use less energy than a centralized one, it just doesn't make sense.