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Re: Bitcoin XT - Officially #REKT (also goes for BIP101 fraud)
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tl121
on 05/11/2015, 16:01:21 UTC
XD Veritas, so you don't care if for make a full node there will be a budget of 100,000$ only in eletricity? I agree with brg444 in this case because all what you just wrote not only is meaningless but even stupid

It is possible to work out the electricity costs to run a full node.  Presently with 1 MB blocks a computer that easily keeps up with the network uses less than $10.00 of electricity per year.  This computer can process  roughly 100 million transactions a year, for an electricity cost per transaction of $0.0000001 per transaction.   If the network has 10,000 nodes the total electricity cost amounts to $0.001 per transaction.   Electricity cost is not  a significant factor in the cost of running a full node today, nor is this likely to be the case in the future.