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Re:Apple to end employee gagging clauses after activist camp... by DavidPeiffer on Saturday December 10, 2022 @08:54AM (#33932617)
>one bitcoin transaction consumes 1,449 kWh

Thank you, I knew it was an energy hog, but had never looked at it this way.

That's enough electricity to melt 2 tons of aluminum, or about half an hour of peak production from an average size US wind turbine.

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