High energy consumption associated with Bitcoin mining has become a subject of serious discussion over the past few years. It is a process that makes the digital asset extremely energy-consuming since the cryptocurrency requires powerful hardware for its enormous hash calculations and processing of financial transactions.
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This is one of the main reasons that influenced the development of BTCU- as the best alternative solution to the first cryptocurrency's intensive-energy usage. BTC Ultimatum blockchain was developed switching to an improved LPoS algorithm (combined with PoA) to eliminate the energy-consuming model associated with Bitcoin mining, which addresses mining performance and increases blockchain throughput up to 10,000 transactions per second.