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Research: Bitcoin Consumes Less Than Half the Energy of the Banking or Gold

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In 2021, between 300-400 thousand BTC transactions took place every day...worldwide.

In 2019, more than 108.6 million credit card transactions were processed every day...in the US alone. Worldwide, about 1 billion card transactions are processed every day. And this is just credit cards.

Need I say more?

Sources:

https://www.statista.com/statistics/730806/daily-number-of-b...

https://www.cardrates.com/advice/number-of-credit-card-trans...

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