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Also the critical thinkers seem to never have even checked the source of this 600KWh / transaction claim.

If you actually cared to check [0] you would see that this claim is coming from estimating mining revenue and then sending 60% of that revenue to mining costs. That calculation is actually:

Mining revenue(in USD) * 0.6 / 0.05 / amount of transactions = KWh per transaction

Embarassing!

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