Tag: ethereum

3:02 pm · January 14, 2021

The latest #Ethereum Energy Consumption Index is 15.923 TWh per Year/1.47 Mil US households (-0.49%) ethereumenergyconsumption.com 35.4 KWh per unique transaction (powers 1 US household for 1.2 days) #MakeEthereumSustainable

The New Republic

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If the price of Bitcoin can be manipulated—by a company that simply prints digital money (not unlike the Federal Reserve’s practice of quantitative easing, a policy despised by Bitcoiners)—doesn’t that undercut one of the core selling points of Bitcoin? newrepublic.com/article/16090…

12:17 pm · January 14, 2021 ·

12:16 pm · January 14, 2021

“While Norilsk Nickel has nothing to do with the data center, its power unit supplies electricity to the crypto-mining facility, Borschenko said. BitCluster will be the city's second-largest power consumer after Norilsk Nickel itself.” 🤔 nornickel.com/news-and-media… 🙈 twitter.com/andreyrudakov/…

Decrypt Media

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A local government in Pakistan is using its own funds to mine (and make a profit from) Bitcoin. decrypt.co/53918/pakistan… pic.twitter.com/Jdt5yyBFmV

11:37 pm · January 13, 2021 ·

2:33 pm · January 13, 2021

#Bitcoin #EWaste Generation is at 11.464 kilotonnes per year (comparable to a country like Luxembourg) bitcoinelectronicwaste.com A footprint of 92 grams per unique transaction (equal to the weight of 1.4 'C'-size batteries or 2 golf balls) #MakeBitcoinSustainable

1:01 pm · January 13, 2021

You’d almost think people are totally fine with using trusted third parties... twitter.com/dandolfa/statu…

The Block

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JUST IN: Bitcoin is 'highly speculative' and needs to be regulated, says ECB's Lagarde (via @Yogita_Khatri5) theblockcrypto.com/post/91014…

10:57 am · January 13, 2021 ·

2:05 pm · January 12, 2021

#Bitcoin's TWh usage results in a #CarbonFootprint of 36.95 MtCO2 (comparable to a country like New Zealand) bitcoinenergyconsumption.com The #carbon #footprint per unique transaction is 297.62 kgCO2 (equivalent to 659,639 VISA transactions) #MakeBitcoinSustainable