06-12-2021, 01:10 AM
(06-11-2021, 11:13 PM)terracore Wrote: The BTC network uses about 12 gigawatts of electricity every minute, most of it from coal-fired plants in China and elsewhere.
That's an insane amount of power! I knew it was dirty but not to that extreme. Show on Netflix called "startup", that I stopped watching after one episode, gives a hint at the massive amount of energy used for this.