| Comment | Ethereum alone consumes 113TWh/year, which is equivalent to the annual electricity consumption of the Netherlands
https://digiconomist.net/ethereum-energy-consumption
Argentina is slightly higher at 125TWh
Fun fact: a recent study estimated the future excess deaths associated with the carbon emissions from bitcoin mining in 2021 to be around 19,000 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S221462962200007X?via%3Dihub |
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