Re:Do we really need to run a power station just for Bitcoin?
by maxk42 on Tuesday November 19, 2013 @12:44PM
(#6762869)
How can I be the first one to notice how fucked this math is?
> Blockchain.info estimates the energy usage of Bitcoin miners to be 74,204.76 megawatt hours for a period of 24 hours. Now 74.2 / 24 = 3.1, so this corresponds to a power requirement of 3.1 GW.
> Blockchain.info estimates the energy usage of Bitcoin miners to be 74,204.76 megawatt hours for a period of 24 hours. Now 74.2 / 24 = 3.1, so this corresponds to a power requirement of 3.1 GW.