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No. Bitcoin network power usage isn’t related to the number of transactions.


You're only talking about at any given moment in tjme, but Bitcoin hashing difficulty adjusts in an almost correlated way to number of transactions being performed (or more directly related to popularity at a given time)

https://m.btc.com/stats/diff

So your statement ends up being incorrect over a period of time.




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