> Do you even know what that means?
Yep. I also know it matters no fucks if you measured it in Joules... scumbag.
Rr
>
> we are still waiting for you to show that you able to
> calculate Blah blah... From that ars technical link
> However, we can make some educated guesses. For starters, we know the
> industry's revenue: Bitcoin miners currently generate 75 bitcoins per
> hour, which, at the current price of around $12,500 per bitcoin,
> translates to $937,500 per hour, or more than $8 billion per year.
hey stupid piece of joo shit, you still don't understand the
very basics of what you are supposed to calculate? you keep
copy pasting irrelevant shit?
you are supposed to give an estimate of energy usage. Watts per
hour. Do you even know what that means?
>
> Moreover, the industry is highly competitive, and electricity is one
> of its biggest costs. So when the price of bitcoins rises, we can
> expect miners to spend more and more on electricity until electricity
> costs are roughly on par with revenues.
>
> This is the methodology the Digiconomist (link... use it scumbag.)
> website uses to estimate the Bitcoin network's energy consumption. It
> assumes that the industry will spend 60 percent of its revenue on
> electricity and then extrapolates from the current bitcoin price and
> prevailing electricity prices. It finds that the network is consuming
> energy at an annual rate of 32TWh.
>
> It also assumes that the network takes time to adjust to big price
> increases like we've seen in recent days. This means that, if Bitcoin
> stays above $12,000, we can expect this figure to rise further in the
> coming weeks." Rr
>