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I'm still confused about the energy calculations for a bitcoin transaction but this got me thinking again. 2 transactions per payment. Who pays for all that energy?
Its one transaction for the jump to the lightning network (creation of a payment channel) and one transaction for the jump back. They key thing is that you can have unlimited transactions on the lightning network for zero or near zero cost.
This means they can transaction batch.
I.e pay one fee to jump to lightning, process 2,000 transactions for their customers for example, and then pay one single fee to write those transactions back to the BTC chain.
Its kind of like how ImmutableX works on ethereum for minimising fees for NFT transactions.
I'm still confused about the energy calculations for a bitcoin transaction but this got me thinking again. 2 transactions per payment. Who pays for all that energy?