Recently, the Bitcoin mining rate surpassed 1 exahash per secondor 1 quintillion SHA hashes per second. That's "back of the envelope" calculations, with some big assumptions made about the mining operation how it's powered, who is powering it, etc. Of course, not all mining is using fossil fuels, not all miners are using Gliders bitcoin miners, not all ASICs can do 1 trillion hashes per second some more, some lessnot all ASICs are consuming that wattage per rate, and the cost of electricity was strictly a U.
That may help balance out some of the miners who are using renewable energy, such as solar power for their mining. Many Chinese and Russian mining data centers certainly have less overhead costs on electricity.
You get the point- we've made some big assumptions, to come to some very rough "ballpark" figures. I don't think we're too far off. This comes at the expense of 1. I would argue that Bitcoin is the worst idea to come out of Computer Science in the history of mankind.
The rule of thumb is that the higher the USD value of a coin, the more power the network will gliders bitcoin miners, despite still not delivering much value as a payment network beyond ransomware, darknet markets, etc. Effectively unlimited amounts of energy are available. Solar, wind, hydro, and nuclear can be built out in vast quantities with essentially no downside. Bitcoin miners also gliders bitcoin miners transactions, so they perform useful work in addition to creating new bitcoins.
Is that a less valuable service than the energy spent watching cat videos, or for that matter porn? Gliders bitcoin miners can pretty well assure you that those things alone gliders bitcoin miners far more energy than bitcoin mining.
Bitcoin in general has value as a decentralized, compact and cheaply transmitted value store. It also makes micropayments practical. The price gliders bitcoin miners bitcoin reflects its utility in the real world. The fact is that if you pay for the power you consume, and there is sufficient power to go around, that should be the end of it. That you disapprove of a specific use case is irrelevant. Unfortunately, not everyone is using renewable energy. In fact, very little in the mining community is.
Most miners are large-scale datacenters, very actively chewing through fossil fuels. Obviously, if the production cost is higher than the revenue, there's likely some assumption being made that is wrong. An Gliders bitcoin miners S7 from BitMain is not the latest 16nm technology that is a top performer in efficiency, but it's also not that old where it would be considered obsolete yet.
So it might be fair to calculate electricity usage using this as typical hardware. Each consumes 1,W, So that's ,W, or Megawatts. That's less than half the number calculated above. If all mining were to be done with these, that's ,00 Megawatts. Gliders bitcoin miners is likely is some of this 16nm tech will be used to replace the hashing of existing less-efficient equipment. BitFury mines today for their own benefit using this 16nm hardware too. They aren't using electricity from fossil fuels.
Anon did a reasonable analysis of the likely current power usage, although it may be a bit on the low side since some older hardware may still be in use where power is cheap enough for it to be profitable.
At night 12 hours per day? That gliders bitcoin miners about 0. This fraction is unlikely to increase over time. What percentage of electric consumption goes to purely entertainment purposes, do you suppose?
I suggest it is vastly larger than the above, and will increase over time. In short, there is no issue with Gliders bitcoin miners electricity use. If you want to do something productive, advocate next-gen nuclear power and other clean sources to replace coal, oil, and eventually natural gas.
There is no need to restrict electricity use, only to produce it using clean technologies. I wholehearted agree, bitcoin mining is a huge drain of resources with no gain.
Its harming nature for no valid reason, although there are more processes governm, company's, We should be searching for more efficiency not less. If we do some quick math, we can determine the following: Every combination of bits can be flipped in an bit keyspace every year. Current global rate is about Bitcoins mined per hour.
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