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Just 137 crypto miners use 2.3% of total U.S. power — government now requiring commercial miners to report energy consumption (www.tomshardware.com)

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[–] [email protected] 48 points 7 months ago (25 children)

Whoever Satoshi was, I wonder how he's responding to the thought that he's personally contributed more to global warming than the average billionaire.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (14 children)

It's a drop in the ocean compared to how much energy the banking industry uses.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 7 months ago (5 children)

Banks use negligible electricity lmao

[–] [email protected] 12 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Yeah. 600k Branches, 1 million atms, data centers..

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

yup, tho they also serve more people than crypto bros, about 100,000 times as many

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

Including everything, about a million times less energy per transaction than crypto.

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