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Topic: Bitcoin energy consumption - unsustainable? - page 3. (Read 742 times)

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Here I come! Again!
November 09, 2017, 02:42:44 AM
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Wow I cant believe it requires so much energy for a single transaction
If I convert it to my country's electricity price, it is around $35 for one single transaction Shocked
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November 09, 2017, 02:35:27 AM
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Currently, bitcoin network consumes 26 TWh a year or 250 kWh per single transaction and is growing at a rate of over 1% daily (according to this website https://digiconomist.net/bitcoin-energy-consumption.)


250 kwh (single transaction!) is now roughly the same to to what an average home/household uses in a month.

Is this really sustainable?

If bitcoin should grow even more, how much power will be used just to run it?
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