Re:Mass Layoffs and Absentee Bosses Create a Morale Crisis a...
by idkyall on Wednesday April 12, 2023 @11:59AM
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Yes, I would imagine PoW for Ethereum was millions of GPUs at least
Re:Mass Layoffs and Absentee Bosses Create a Morale Crisis a...
by pcthrowaway on Wednesday April 12, 2023 @12:19PM
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It doesn't. A steel mill produces 200,000 tons of steel per year (at the low end) and consumes 770 Kwh of energy per ton, which works out to 0.154 Twh per year. Post-merge ethereum uses 0.0026 Twh, so about 1% the energy usage of one steel mill
Some produce up to 3,000,000 tons, so the ethereum network would consume about 0.1% as much energy as one of those
edit: Bitcoin for comparison consumes somewhere around 100 Twh, so is comparable to 1000 steel mills (which might be more than the number of actual steel mills in operation globally?)
Does this take the migration to proof of stake last year into account?