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Re:Kosovo bans cryptocurrency mining to save electricity by onionisafruit on Wednesday January 05, 2022 @09:19AM (#29809205)
There was a report on HN recently that said crypto’s 2021 worldwide energy usage was roughly the same as Argentina. I don’t know where that puts it as a percent of energy usage worldwide.
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Re:Kosovo bans cryptocurrency mining to save electricity by user-the-name on Wednesday January 05, 2022 @12:01PM (#29811563)
About 0.5% of the entire electricity of the planet at the moment.
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