• Difficult to estimate when it Crashes (Was: Comparison energy consumpti

    From Mild Shock@21:1/5 to Mild Shock on Tue Jan 21 21:45:38 2025
    XPost: sci.physics.relativity

    Hi,

    Difficult to estimate when it Crashes,
    not sure whether we are weeks or years
    away from it. When I look at the current

    charts, it makes me think the critical mass
    is very close, where some whales will first
    take the opportunity to take home some gains,

    and then the domino stones might fall:

    https://coinmarketcap.com/

    It has a steady fluctuation of 10%. But
    messages like DOJ CLEARED TO SELL $6.5B
    IN SEIZED SILK ROAD BITCOIN tell me,

    its all about disolving Bitcoin, and the
    one who closes the door last will get
    some bread crumbs. And these are usually

    the stupid retail investors, who were too
    stupid to do Bitcoin in the early days because
    of the technical hurdles, and have now

    been lured into ETFs.

    Bye

    P.S.: For example Blackrock doesn't
    owns the Bitcoins, will not be affected.
    Blackrock owns nothing, they only organize

    funds and ETFs which mediate Bitcoin between
    sellers and buyers and they act as custodians.
    They don't own any Bitcoins. They don't care

    whether Bitcoin goes up or down.

    Mild Shock schrieb:

    Cryptocurrency    Energy     Protocol
    Bitcoin (BTC)    ~707    ~5
    Ethereum (ETH)    ~0.03    ~15–30
    Solana (SOL)    ~0.00051    ~2,000
    Cardano (ADA)    ~0.0004    ~250
    Polkadot (DOT)    ~0.003    ~1,000
    Ripple (XRP)    ~0.00001    ~1,500
    Avalanche (AVAX)    ~0.0007    ~4,500

    Energy consumption per Transaction (kWh)
    Protocol speed, transactions per second (TPS)

    https://digiconomist.net/bitcoin-energy-consumption https://www.blockchain-council.org/cryptocurrency/top-cryptocurrencies-with-their-high-transaction-speeds

    Etc..

    Mild Shock schrieb:
    Hi,

    Not only a Ponzi scheme. Its rooted in some
    2008 shock and experiene of loss, experience of
    helplessness, and some theories about scarcity,

    fairness and trust. Basically distrust into
    governement money and various banks, distrust
    into non-anonymous tax paying transactions,

    comparison to gold and some new world utopias.
    These theories are given further support by
    pseudo scientific evidence, such as claims

    the 1700-1800 UK industrial revolution was
    based on money scarcity. Further it is infested
    by a lot of con artists.

    Some motives are understandable, and depending
    on the national background and economy of the
    country legitimated.

    But the risks mostlikely outweight the chances.
    There are dozen examples of things that became
    big and disappeared. Thats just normal life cycle
    6
    theory that applies to an human invention. Take
    this simple example:

    - 10 years ago housholds were mainly using
        Incandescent bulbs that consumed 60W - 100W

    - now housholds use mainly LEDs, using Phosphor
        conversionwith much lower consumption of 6W - 8W

    The same will happen with Bitcoin. Bitcoin is extremly
    slow protocol, and extremly energy hungry.


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