Before halving, Bitcoin costs over 100 CO2e per coin, emits more pollution than countries, yet serves less than daily card transactions.
After 15 years Bitcoin has officially processed nearly as many transactions as the world needs in one day. In 2022, global credit card transactions were estimated to total 678 billion, or 1.86 billion per day. https://capitaloneshopping.com/research/number-of-credit-card-transactions/#:~:text=Highlights.,%2D10%20in%2Dstore%20purchases. Bitcoin costs (before recent halving) more than 100 CO2e per coin and emits more pollution than whole countries, yet over …