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Re:Kosovo bans cryptocurrency mining to save electricity by VHRanger on Wednesday January 05, 2022 @09:24AM (#29809271)
BTC is about 0.5% of worldwide energy: https://ccaf.io/cbeci/index/comparisons

So close to Sweden.

Ethereum is much less, closer to Senegal in energy use.

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Re:Kosovo bans cryptocurrency mining to save electricity by kipchak on Wednesday January 05, 2022 @12:18PM (#29811826)
A bit of pedantry: BTC is .56% of electricity use, and .28% of energy use according to this site, though I don't grasp where the disparity of coming from other than many miners getting power directly from the energy source versus through the public electrical grid.
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Re:Kosovo bans cryptocurrency mining to save electricity by purpleflame1257 on Wednesday January 05, 2022 @12:44PM (#29812219)
Other way around. There's a lot of energy us on the planet that isn't electrical (good examples being gas cooking, petrol, and biomass in the developing world).
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Re:Kosovo bans cryptocurrency mining to save electricity by JAlexoid on Wednesday January 05, 2022 @01:35PM (#29813029)
When you burn gas/coal/oil to heat your home that is also energy.
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