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Re:Bitcoin Energy Consumption Index by decentralised on Sunday August 27, 2017 @01:03AM (#15109221)
> If a single bitcoin transaction uses enough energy to power 5 households for a day,

Care to share a source for this claim? I think you might have gotten transaction and new block generation mixed there, but I may be wrong, of course.

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Re:Bitcoin Energy Consumption Index by mcv on Monday August 28, 2017 @06:32AM (#15115629)
I got it from the article, but several responses say that it's a misrepresentation by the article, and that more transactions would not consume significantly more energy.
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Re:Bitcoin Energy Consumption Index by decentralised on Tuesday September 05, 2017 @11:50AM (#15176384)
I too think that's the case but I'm always willing to learn.. thanks for answering.
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