• jet@hackertalks.com
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    11 months ago

    Globally in 2018 there are 370 billion credit card transactions, divided by 6 million for swimming pool comes to 62,000 swimming pools worth of water for global credit card transactions.

    Or 170 swimming pools a day

    Or seven swimming pools an hour.

    Bitcoin is targeting 10 minutes per block on average, so that’s 144 blocks per day or six swimming pools per hour.

    I don’t really have a point with this math, just that if an article is going to make a colorful analogy, they should take it all the way so we can have comparables