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Country closest to in terms of electricity consumption: Czech Republic

Electricity consumed per transaction (KWh): 981

Number of U.S. households that could be powered by Bitcoin: 6,398,945

Bitcoin's electricity consumption as a percentage of the world's electricity consumption: 0.31%

Carbon footprint per transaction (kg of CO2): 480.57

Source: digiconomist.net/bitcoin-energ

Bitcoin will soon surpass Chile, Austria and the Philippines. Holy fucking shit. We have to stop this.

@rizzn Linking to your own article (which btw is not readily available) is not very good practice. What is the point of such a report, commissioned by someone inside the cryptocurrency-biz? That is clearly not impartial analysis.

@resist_berlin would you prefer I copy and paste a full text of the report here?

It is readily available.

If you're not able to read it, that says more about you than me.

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@rizzn Also there is this peer-reviewed article now:

sciencedirect.com/science/arti

Which is also available for direct download. I'm not saying that their numbers or their methodology is infallible, but at least they provide lots of background information.

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@resist_berlin it's all based on the same data set.

Look, read it or not. I don't care.

@rizzn That's fine, I just noticed that people have a tendency there of claiming the numbers are incorrect and then failing to back up their claim. Whatever. :fairydust: