Re:Radeon RX 6500 XT is bad at cryptocurrency mining on purp...
by vlovich123 on Tuesday January 11, 2022 @09:27PM
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It's currently close. Bitcoin alone uses 91 TWh globally [1]. US dryers consume ~60 TWh [2]. However, one of those is seeing exponential energy usage while the others is very mature and stable.
I'm also shocked that people do laundry so often. Not sure why people are doing more than one or two loads per week and that's a problem the government could look at tackling (not so much with PoW coins).
I'm also shocked that people do laundry so often. Not sure why people are doing more than one or two loads per week and that's a problem the government could look at tackling (not so much with PoW coins).
[1] https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/09/03/climate/bitco...
[2] https://www.nrdc.org/sites/default/files/ene_14060901a.pdf