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Country closest to #Bitcoin in terms of electricity consumption: Czech Republic

Electricity consumed per transaction (KWh): 981

Number of U.S. households that could be powered by Bitcoin: 6,398,945

Bitcoin's electricity consumption as a percentage of the world's electricity consumption: 0.31%

Carbon footprint per transaction (kg of CO2): 480.57

Source: digiconomist.net/bitcoin-energ

Bitcoin will soon surpass Chile, Austria and the Philippines. Holy fucking shit. We have to stop this.

inmysocks Of Doom, Naked KSC @inmysocks

@resist_berlin as part of my phd research I looked at the global telecom power usage and it was about 1% of the total power usage. This was a few years ago so it may have changed, but that would put bitcoin by itself using about 1/3 as much power as the rest of the global telecom system combined.

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@inmysocks @resist_berlin o0 This is insane. Would you happen to still have the source link somewhere?
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