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by JoshTriplett 3800 days ago
> AMD is still better for bitcoin mining

Neither CPUs nor GPUs have any remaining relevance there, given ASIC/FPGA miners.
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dcposch 3800 days ago
Even FPGAs and older-process ASICs are unusable for Bitcoin today. The network hashpower just broke 1 exahash/second
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ethbro 3800 days ago
Side question: does anyone have links on some power bounds for what the Bitcoin network is currently consuming?

Understand it would be a very rough estimate, but seems like it would be possible to arrive at some kind of number given electricity prices as a ceiling and state of the art efficiency as a floor.

Curious on what the magnitude is in relation to other things...

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voltagex_ 3800 days ago
The power/monetary cost of 1 megahash is going to be different in Australia than it is in China.
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ethbro 3800 days ago
That's why I said "bounds".
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