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Re:Bitcoin could cost us our clean-energy future by unchocked on Wednesday December 06, 2017 @01:00AM (#15858899)
That's 1% of global energy usage, and you say it isn't worth writing about?

*edit yep math's wrong. It's still a shitload of power and worth writing about.

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Re:Bitcoin could cost us our clean-energy future by rgbrenner on Wednesday December 06, 2017 @01:03AM (#15858909)
Check your math. 13 / 110,000 = 0.00012. Or 0.012%. That's 1/80th of 1%.

If it gets to 1% -- 1100 TWH -- then sure, it'll definitely be worth discussing.

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