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This uses the lightning network. The energy cost of a lightning payment is orders of magnitude lower than bitcoin.

This kind of usage actually demonstrates bitcoin's valuable use case (a base layer for final settlement) whereas in recent years a lot of energy was being burned effectively just for speculation.



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