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What renders this whole calculation wrong is that it doesn’t account for transaction fees AND transaction fees growth which was also supposed to be growing exponentially, had Bitcoin not been artificially limited to ~ 2 MB blocks every ten minutes.

On an actually uncapped Bitcoin instance, Blocks (Block size) and transaction fees will grow exponentially, rendering all such “Bitcoin is environmentally terrible” and “Miners aren’t profitable” calculations absurdly wrong.

Other instances exist that are chugging along flawlessly and are set to help miners grow their revenue with on-chain transaction fees growth: DYOR.

Of course, BTC Maxis lead by companies set to profit from such an artificial limit on Bitcoin (hint: they often peddle L2 solutions) would hate for you or anyone to understand and study those facts.


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