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by Tenoke
1609 days ago
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Some of the most expensive casinos (just the building) to build are: Venetian Macau – $2.4 billion, Wynn Las Vegas – $2.7 billion, Resorts World Sentosa – $4.53 billion, Marina Bay Sands – $5.36 billion, CityCenter Las Vegas – $9 billion. That already likely costs more than the combined electricity used by Bitcoin so far, if it doesn't you can easily reach trillions by combining the costs of just Casino buildings. Money roughly translates into resources, so I can't see a way in which the gambling industry hasn't consumed much more than Bitcoin as of right now. Maybe in a century if Bitcoin keeps going really strong it can start to catch up. 0. https://casino.partycasino.com/en/blog/the-most-expensive-ca... |
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I have my doubts about this.
BTC energy cost was in the realm of 10 billion/year this year, and increasing quickly year over year. That's from around 150 TW hours, or around 5x Nevada's consumption.
The hash rate this year averaged around 140 million THash/sec. It appears that efficient equipment costs about 10k per 100THash/sec. So you're looking at another 14 billion in currently running hardware, conservatively, not to mention the price of the buildings those Asics need to be put in.
There's another big flaw here, which is that cost isn't just reflective of consumption but of demand. The same hotel building on the Vegas strip is a lot more expensive than if you built it in rural Idaho, and BTC has the advantage of being able to use the cheapest land and electricity.