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RE: Bitcoin estimated to use half a percent of the world's electric energy by end of 2018

in #bitcoin6 years ago

Just a little reminder, that Internet itself consumes up to 7% (2017 numbers) of all the world's energy.
Here's a comparison with countries (2012 numbers) :

And for the traditional banking system, it's 2% (4 times Bitcoin and it's an estimate at minima, the real numbers should be higher, but there's no extensive study on this subject). Source : Hackernoon