> Miners expend the same amount of energy regardless if they are validating 1 or 1000 transactions in a block. This ignores the transaction fees. Even though t

> Miners expend the same amount of energy regardless if they are validating 1 or 1000 transactions in a block. This ignores the transaction fees. Even though they are only 10-20% of the total fees a miner collects, 10-20% of a round-trip from SF to NYC is still a lot of energy.