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Re:Tell HN: Coinbase now requires physical address of recipi... by SonOfThePlower on Friday June 24, 2022 @03:50AM (#31858846)
How many TWh crypto consumed? Would one be able to build Egyptian pyramids with this amount of energy?
Re:Tell HN: Coinbase now requires physical address of recipi... by londons_explore on Friday June 24, 2022 @04:18AM (#31859013)
Clearly, yes.

Building a pyramid, in the ideal case, simply requires the energy to lift each stone into place. Lifting 6.5 million tons of stone on average 40 meters (remember that most of the weight of a pyramid is at the bottom!) uses 6.5e9 * 40 * 10 Joules of energy, which is 722 MWh, which costs $144,000 in (California) electricity. Okay - thats a lot more than I expected actually...