BitCoin & Energy Usage
…the current global power consumption for the servers that run bitcoin’s software is a minimum of 2.55 gigawatts (GW), which amounts to energy consumption of 22 terawatt-hours (TWh) per year—almost the same as Ireland. Google, by comparison, used 5.7 TWh worldwide in 2015. If the cryptocurrency were to stay at its recent price of $8,000, … Continue reading BitCoin & Energy Usage