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Re:China's Ban on Bitcoin Follows a Pattern Frequently Used ... by oefrha on Tuesday July 13, 2021 @01:47PM (#27823879)
If China uses 3900TWh a year, that would be twice the global consumption by your claim that 110TWh = 0.55% global. Of course that number is about an order of magnitude off.

If Bitcoin being as useless as it is consumes 0.55% of global electricity isn’t alarming I don’t know what is.

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Re:China's Ban on Bitcoin Follows a Pattern Frequently Used ... by mrpbennett on Tuesday July 13, 2021 @02:07PM (#27824159)
got my China data from here https://ourworldindata.org/energy/country/china
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Re:China's Ban on Bitcoin Follows a Pattern Frequently Used ... by oefrha on Tuesday July 13, 2021 @02:18PM (#27824270)
Okay, I misread your energy to electricity-only comparison. Divide 0.55% by 5 and it’s still alarming.

You also need to quantify all the non-electricity energy use going into the Bitcoin equal system, including but not limited to hardware production, transportation, depreciation, etc. I’m not sure if those are negligible.

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