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by viraptor 2875 days ago
Even with 0.04%, we have around 25 power plants [0] operating just for Bitcoin. You say it's tiny just like Christmas light, I say it we could get rid of PoW and improve/chill on Christmas lights we could reduce demand on 30 or so power plants and maybe not build new ones immediately. (Yes, average are bad, we're in a back of the napkin territory)

[0] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2012/12/08/all-o...