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bigbugbag on Feb 26, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: What is happening in the Arctic is now beyond word...

Is bitcoin worse than facebook or google ?

runeb on March 1, 2018 [–]

Worse than both combined, multiplied by at least 6:

Facebook: ~2TWh(https://www.statista.com/statistics/580087/energy-use-of-fac...)

Google: ~6TWh (https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/www.google.com/en...)

Bitcoin: ~50TWh (https://digiconomist.net/bitcoin-energy-consumption)

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