News about Energy

More / Bitcoin Reddit - 1 year ago

We need to get in front of the "BTC consumes more power than several countries" meme. Push the fact that Porn and On-line gaming consume more power than BTC, and have arguably less "usefulness", if the goal is reduced energy use, they ought to go after th

citations - BTC used 123 TWh annually. [0] Computers, data centers and networks consume about 10% of all the world energy. [1] 4 percent of websites are estimated to be porn [2] a single gaming computer costs about up to 1400 kWh annually. [3] So the...

More / Bitcoin Reddit - 1 year ago

We need to get in front of the "BTC consumes more power than several countries" meme. Push the fact that Porn and On-line gaming consume more power than BTC, and have arguably less "usefulness", if the goal is reduced energy use, they ought to go after th

citations - BTC used 123 TWh annually. [0] Computers, data centers and networks consume about 10% of all the world energy. [1] 4 percent of websites are estimated to be porn [2] a single gaming computer costs about up to 1400 kWh annually. [3] So the...

More / Bitcoin Reddit - 1 year ago

We need to get in front of the "BTC consumes more power than several countries" meme. Push the fact that Porn and On-line gaming consume more power than BTC, and have arguably less "usefulness", if the goal is reduced energy use, they ought to go after th

citations - BTC used 123 TWh annually. [0] Computers, data centers and networks consume about 10% of all the world energy. [1] 4 percent of websites are estimated to be porn [2] a single gaming computer costs about up to 1400 kWh annually. [3] So the...