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Nah, it's intentionally energy wasteful in order to control inflation.
Supporting Bitcoin is like supporting the model T to the bitter end... despite a million better options... all of which are a pyramid scheme instead of money.
Monero is the only legitimate crypto I've seen to date. You can tell because most countries have essentially banned all onramps to acquiring it. Can't have anonymous transactions, of anonymous amounts, with anonymous parties... because that would be woke DEI pedo terrorism... ya know, like every cash transaction in history!
Say what? Which part?
There's a NIP (or several, probably) about Lightning, but all NIPs after NIP-0 are optional. Nobody has to support, process, or transact Lightning. Nodes do no cryptocoin processing, unless they're designed for it, and mostv aren't. It uses cryptography, but so does Lemmy: the "s" in https is for SSL, which is cryptography.
I've run Nostr nodes, and I'll probably use Nostr in my next project as the message broker for a networked game; the protocol is simple, nodes are simple, lightweight, and trivial to run, and most can be configured to federate with whichever set (or no set) of other nodes. It's far easier to run Nostr nodes that don't participate in the whole Lightning cryptocurrency part than it is to make them exchanges.
So, why do you say that it's intentionally wasteful? Matrix and ActivityPub are far more wasteful, aggressively replicating data between federated servers. Even "lightweight" AP nodes are massive consumers of CPU and storage just because of how chatty they are. Nostr nodes are positively eco-friendly by comparison.
The rate at which new bitcoins enter the economy is controlled. When the processing power of the mining network increases, the difficulty of the mining problem is artificially increased to keep the rate of minting the same. They throw out perfectly good solutions to the problem of creating the next link in the blockchain, to control inflation of bitcoin value.
https://www.investopedia.com/tech/how-does-bitcoin-mining-work/#toc-why-mine-bitcoin
They are spending 100 trillion times as many processor cycles on bitcoin mining as is actually required to maintain the network. Every bitcoin transaction could be done at 100 trillionth the current energy cost. The only problem is, it would devalue bitcoins and crash the market like a Venezuelan dollar. So Bitcoin is designed to intentionally flush the energy output of a small country down the toilet to keep itself valuable.
Excellent summary. Thanks.