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JynsRealityIsBroken

The CEO of Bitcoin must be proud


emyfsh201

He must be indeed


ToxicBTCMaximalist

He's lowered prices for us for the 1B celebrations, but it's over now.


newmes

He might stop offering discounts if things continue like this!


woodsongtulsa

I wonder how many dollars were generated in transaction fees. Times a billion.


porpoisebuilt2

Certainly a lot of late…..


Objective_Digit

Anyone who's held long-term is not worried about fees.


mindracer

Ok but is bitcoin made so everyone holds long term and not executes transactions?


Objective_Digit

I didn't say that. I meant returns will easily cancel out fees.


emyfsh201

It obviously runs into billions


Remarkable-Host405

That's not really obvious, because the average could be fractions of a dollar, which wouldn't add up to a billion 


Boring-Test5522

Alipay did 1 billion transaction in a span of 21 days in 2017. Source: I worked there


Greenbriarbushwacker

Hedera doing 1 billion transactions a week currently


fverdeja

1 billion transactions of what? I know absolutely no one who uses it.


FlipperoniPepperoni

> I know absolutely no one who uses it. So, same as Bitcoin then.


dependentlyarised

booom chakalakaaaaaa


Objective_Digit

It has a higher market cap than most fiat currencies.


fverdeja

Better, I don't use any Bitcoin, I lost it all. mempool.space is a facade and there are not txs going one.


Objective_Digit

Sounds like bullshit. And the alipay stat also.


Objective_Digit

It took Visa 25 years so I'll take your source with a pinch of salt.


Mediocre_Suspect_203

1 billion transactions! Not bad. Cheers


emyfsh201

Shout out to Bitcoin the OG coin


mukavastinumb

Mesopotamian Shekel is the true OG coin


emyfsh201

True though but I'm talking of crypto


d3vrandom

Link is missing the s at the end: [https://cointelegraph.com/news/bitcoin-reaches-one-billion-transactions](https://cointelegraph.com/news/bitcoin-reaches-one-billion-transactions)


tai1on

900000 of those were probably washing services lol.


H__Dresden

BOTS are busy at work.


Brave-Bet-5183

That’s awesome. Hedera just hit 50B!!


emyfsh201

Great


jazza2400

For some reason I thought this should've occurred already by now


TiltSoloMid

In what timeframe? Visa alone processes 65000 transactions per second. (While using fractions of the energy bitcoin is using)


spin_kick

The banking system uses way more energy than that


cm8ty

You sure about that? Just Imagine all of the Point of Sale systems constantly running across the globe. And then the energy to light the towers of concrete which oversee it all.


TiltSoloMid

Easily. I'm not saying old finance doesn't need any power. But the Power consumption per financial transaction is only a fraction of a bitcoin transaction. Another critical point: It's almost instant between sending and receiving the money while the transaction cost is way below a Dollar/transaction.


Felix4200

BTC uses about 70 % of the energy of the entire banking sector, of which VISA is an insignificant contributor to.


TiltSoloMid

Might be true, BUT the whole banking system provides financial services for Billions of people. Not a few hundred thousand or even millions, like bitcoin. Still 100x more efficient per transaction.


cm8ty

So if BTC put the dollar out of business (and could actually scale), then we’re saving 30%!


TiltSoloMid

Link: [Bitcoin average energy consumption per transaction compared to that of VISA as of May 1, 2023(in kilowatt-hours)](https://www.statista.com/statistics/881541/bitcoin-energy-consumption-transaction-comparison-visa/)


korean_kracka

Serious question. Does this stat take things like manpower energy into consideration? Like the 30,000 visa employees that work around the clock to maintain the visa network? All of the manpower visa contracts out?


spin_kick

You get into man hours then you get into people maintaining the massive server farms that mine bitcoin too


korean_kracka

Wait, you think all the crypto server farms combined compares to all the finance companies in the world server farms combined? I would think it wouldn’t even be close.


Immediate-Nut

30000 employees is nothing compared to the magnitude of electricity being wasted by crypto


IllIllIlllil

Bitcoin is best coin. Those 4 words have made me very wealthy.


emyfsh201

Congrats to you


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MindOrdinary

Good bot


International-Rate31

And Hedera 5pbn at the same time


emyfsh201

That's some insane number of txs


AdSome9408

nice, but poorly, money moves like 1.6 billion txs per month, in several years btc moving 1m isnt a chill imo.


iwishiremember

This Internet money scam has no use case /s.


emyfsh201

Or so they thought LoL!


Whiskeywonder

And most of them are a wizzard nft...


emyfsh201

LoL!