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Re:Harvard supercomputing cluster hijacked to mine Dogecoin by dustcoin on Friday February 21, 2014 @04:54PM (#7279687)
>If our supply-demand assumption is true, the $2,160,000 dollars of Bitcoins that come into existence every day, that's also about $2,160,000 of electricity used.

I have some first-gen ASIC miners and electricity is 20% of revenues at the current price and difficulty. The current-gen miners that are contributing to most of the increase in hash power are even more efficient and many large scale operations have cheap electricity.

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