Comparison energy consumption and protocol speed (Was: Bit careful with Bitcoin)

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.
 >