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Title: Energy used by BTC
Post by: simbax on December 08, 2017, 02:03:37 PM
Good afternoon
In my country the main news channels are not for BTC, but they have to talk about it :)

The biggest point agains BTC is that every transaction uses a huge amount of energy.
Some main newspaper said that one trasaction uses the same amount of enegery neede to warm up a flat for a week.

To me it doesn't make much sense

Are the some real data about power use?
How can we know how much pover BTC uses?


Title: Re: Energy used by BTC
Post by: faithterms on December 17, 2017, 07:23:55 PM
Yes, there are power uses when earning bitcoins, especially if you're one of those miners. Mining requires high powered computers in the first place.