Personal attacks all the way because your pet golden hammer was attacked Neither is Bitcoin my pet golden hammer (I don't even know that metaphor), nor is my s

Personal attacks all the way because your pet golden hammer was attacked Neither is Bitcoin my pet golden hammer (I don't even know that metaphor), nor is my statement a personal attack. It's merely pointing out that your claim is so fundamentally wrong that you can't have a good understanding of the design. If you don't want to learn the protocol then maybe think about it this way: Energy consumption is not an exponential factor in bitcoin simply because miners have to pay for their energy, too. And the number of miners does not grow exponentially.