The U.S government wants to crack down on the ballooning energy consumption of Bitcoin miners.
  • orrk@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    5 months ago

    nah the power use numbers you gave are not on an extreme scale, the point of how the bitcoin and most cryptos work is designed to keep using more and more power

    • stoy@lemmy.zipEnglish
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      5 months ago

      I suspcted as much, but I wanted to show that even cut in half the power use of a single Bitcoin transaction consume an absurd ammount of energy, this to try and stop people arguing that I was being unfair against crypto