Re:Cambridge Bitcoin Electricity Consumption Index
by acdha on Wednesday February 10, 2021 @10:50AM
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> Crypto mining is largely powered by renewables (40% according to one source in Sep 2020).
That’s one source and less than half does not mean “largely” in standard English usage. More importantly, almost nobody uses Bitcoin so a key question would be how that’d change if usage could be scaled up to, say, even 0.1% of daily transactions.
That’s one source and less than half does not mean “largely” in standard English usage. More importantly, almost nobody uses Bitcoin so a key question would be how that’d change if usage could be scaled up to, say, even 0.1% of daily transactions.