[cmgxyz]

> This number is very difficult to estimate, but seems to be on the order of 10kwh, or as much as driving your tesla ~30 miles, or running your dishwasher 5 times, or running your air conditioner for 5 hours, or doing any of a number of other things which people happily do every day without thinking twice. It would be nice if energy consumption was even lower, and multiple chains are working toward lowering it, but popular articles all seem to believe your NFT could power Berlin for a day if only you weren't being so selfish.

Those are all astonishingly energy consumptive tasks for something that, I agree with the article author, is pretty much bereft of any value.

By contrast, you could make... what, five hundred thousand credit card transactions with that same energy? That's f**king insane.