misk@sopuli.xyz to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 7 months agoJust 137 crypto miners use 2.3% of total U.S. power — government now requiring commercial miners to report energy consumptionwww.tomshardware.comexternal-linkmessage-square291fedilinkarrow-up1595arrow-down113cross-posted to: technology@lemmy.world
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minus-squareemergencyfood@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·7 months agoSo what happens if a lot of people want to make transactions at the same time? Do they have to queue? Also, this sounds like anyone can cripple the system by scheduling a few thousand tiny transactions.
minus-squareIAm_A_Complete_Idiot@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·7 months agoThere’s a transaction fee, the higher you pay the more priority you have (since miners get a cut).
So what happens if a lot of people want to make transactions at the same time? Do they have to queue? Also, this sounds like anyone can cripple the system by scheduling a few thousand tiny transactions.
There’s a transaction fee, the higher you pay the more priority you have (since miners get a cut).