dazeandconfuse

> When you put it all together, that’s a projection of 135.12 TWh in the year, or about as much power as is used annually by the country of Sweden

I don't doubt that bitcoin miners use a lot of energy, but I hesitate to trust a source that doesn't know the difference between power and energy. Also, they're lying about the energy consumption of Sweden, which actually uses 645.7 TW/yr as of 2012 [0]. They number they quote is actually the electricity consumption of Sweden [1], which is like 5x lower.

[0]: https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=energy+consumption+of+...

[1]: https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=energy+consumption+of+...

not sure if this is what you're talking about, but there are plenty of darknet markets that use cryptocurrency in very wide use

Good point. I should try to look on the bright side.

Thanks. I'm reading all the comments. I definitely felt like what the boss was upset about at the meeting had more to do with the technical side, rather than communication.

I feel like my communication with my manager was good. We have all-team meets (that the boss isn't a part of) where I gave weekly status updates, and there's a group chat on slack with my manager where me and the other person on the project discussed what we were working on. I also maintain a github project that shows the status of everything I'm working on that takes me more than one day (and try to keep it up-to-date with what the other person on the project is doing too).

But there was virtually no communication between me and my skip boss. My feeling is that I should have been doing more to keep him in the loop. I think, viewing from the outside, some might say that the management hierarchy exists for a reason and just communicating with my direct manager should be fine, but I think the skip boss would have appreciated being kept more directly in the loop.

No, I don't, is this something you think it'd make sense for me to request?

The boss is definitely not incompetent (he's incredibly smart), and I don't feel like he's a dick either. Maybe this is just my naivete from being fresh in the job market, but I really wanted him to like me, and one of the things that bums me out the most here is that now I obviously feel like he doesn't. I do feel like some of his criticisms were unfair, but like I said in my post I can't deny that some of the problems are genuinely my fault.

Thanks for the encouraging words though. I probably am being overly emotional about it. I have a lot of model uncertainty about my boss so I have genuinely no idea whether he would fire me.

I'm not sure. I'm glad he told me, otherwise I wouldn't have known I was undershooting his expectations. I did make mistakes that made the project taking longer than it had to. I guess if I want to keep working here I'll need to find a way to make fewer mistakes like that in the future.

Thanks. I definitely will take that into consideration in the future. I'm not sure if it would have helped in this specific case but I can definitely think of other situations at work where taking your advice would have helped me.