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During the livestream of the Merge someone said 0.2%, while Bitcoin was at 0.5%. Regardless, still an amazingly high percentage to just “turn off”.



Well, I laid out my numbers and calculation.

If there is a more accurate way of calculating it that results in 0.2%, I would love to hear about it.


https://ethereum.org/en/energy-consumption/

- Youtube 244 TWh/year

- Gold mining 240 TWh/year

- Bitcoin 200 TWh/year

- Ethereum PoW 112 TWh / year

- Netflix 94 TWh / year

- Gaming 34 TWh / year

- Paypal 0.26 TWh / year

- Ethereum PoS 0.01 TWh / year




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