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Re:Bitcoin Energy Consumption Index by synchrone on Sunday August 27, 2017 @07:37AM (#15110309)
US Currency budget for 2016 was 709M USD: https://www.federalreserve.gov/foia/files/2017currency.pdf

Ecological concerns aside, this puts a bit of a perspective on the overhead costs of maintaining a currency.

Fiat currencies require a stability of power of course, which is impossible to quantify.

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