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Re:Delaying the Inevitable: Muir Glacier and the Ethereum Di... by CydeWeys on Friday January 03, 2020 @01:59PM (#21949095)
The total power consumption of any given crypto currency scales according to the ongoing value of new block rewards per fixed unit of time. You can ignore the rest of the factors (like algo, block time) for the most part. Miners run if they can make money for a given cost of electricity, and don't if they can't.
Re:Delaying the Inevitable: Muir Glacier and the Ethereum Di... by tromp on Friday January 03, 2020 @02:16PM (#21949291)
Indeed; see for example this screener showing daily issuance in dollars:

https://messari.io/screener/play-around-074BC5B4

from which we can infer that Bitcoin uses about 10x more electricity than Ethererum.