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by maxk42 4590 days ago
How can I be the first one to notice how fucked this math is?

> Blockchain.info estimates the energy usage of Bitcoin miners to be 74,204.76 megawatt hours for a period of 24 hours. Now 74.2 / 24 = 3.1, so this corresponds to a power requirement of 3.1 GW.