agedcayenne

I feel like SQLAlchemy is the elephant in the room here that addresses most of his perceived shortcomings with ORMs.

The amount of energy spent does not depend on number of transactions nor how much is needed to secure the blockchain, it's purely determined by how much miners are willing to spend, which is mostly determined by the bitcoin price. So, if you would expect the amount of energy spent on mining to scale with any variable, it would be trading price and price alone.