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misk@sopuli.xyz to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago

Just 137 crypto miners use 2.3% of total U.S. power — government now requiring commercial miners to report energy consumption

www.tomshardware.com

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Just 137 crypto miners use 2.3% of total U.S. power — government now requiring commercial miners to report energy consumption

www.tomshardware.com

misk@sopuli.xyz to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago
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The U.S government wants to crack down on the ballooning energy consumption of Bitcoin miners.
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    Banks use negligible electricity lmao

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      Yeah. 600k Branches, 1 million atms, data centers…

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        Including everything, about a million times less energy per transaction than crypto.

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        yup, tho they also serve more people than crypto bros, about 100,000 times as many

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      the banking industry

      Might want to brush up on that reading comprehension.

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      I think this is the most forced ‘lmao’ I have ever read

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