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I have researching Blockchain technology since 2 years. So i have decided to conclude about some topics which are controversial. Please correct me if you got me wrong.

Bitcoin has become the most talked thing recently for its upsurge and downfall, the very feature that makes it unique to all others. Bitcoin can be collected through a process of solving mathematical equation, better known as mining. Mining needs a great set of computer components to do it pretty well but if takes a huge amount of energy to produce a tiny amount of bitcoin. Since mining become very popular among enthusiast and the price hike is going up; more and more people are involving themselves into this.

The Irony Fact

The irony of the fact is that, it also takes away a lot of energy that can be used in our daily lives for days and months. Most of the countries produce their electricity through fossil fuel or by burning coal or gas, which is emptying day by day.  It puts a great deal of pressure in our future endeavors as nothing is made to replace it.

The Usage of Electricity increases by 300 times
Bitcoin surely is new revolution for the blockchain technology but it has a big price to pay even to make 1 bitcoin. The less economically powerful countries mostly produce their electricity through their natural resources and does not have power plants that produces from molecular level. Recent reviews shows that, since the arrival of mining, the use of electricity increases by 300 times comparing to the previous years.


At first, the condition was easy enough to become solved by the standard CPU, but since more miners joined typically the network and the condition started to be more difficult, miners identified that GPU were far better suited to solve the particular problem. Just a couple years afterwards, FPGAs and after that ASICs – application specific integrated brake lines – were better suited than GPUs to solve a block. Folks, like magnate and former Google information security Professional, Marc Bevand, feels that the quantity of energy that mining uses will cause further development by way of renewable energies. Bevand believes that the energy consumption will eventually guide to decreased costs of renewable energy for modern society at large.

Electric bills have already put miners looking for a less costly source of energy. Companies have been looking to be able to places like Canada plus the Sichuan province wherever electricity is typically less costly. Because miners have incentives to use cheap electrical energy, this results in more R&D in the energy space. In the long run, this will make forms of electricity less costly to all of modern society as innovations are manufactured in energy.
Also even though amount of energy mining procedures consume does not really go unnoticed, some individuals think that the benefits associated with exploration - network security ~ outweigh the negative externalities like electricity consumption.

The particular Bitcoin network is secured by a consensus protocol called proof-of-work (PoW). Miners are paid minted Bitcoin and transaction costs for solving an obstruction newly, securing the network at the same period. If a miner is definitely not really capable to resolve the cryptographic evidence, obstructs of transaction history shall not be added to the blockchain and blockchain technology generally would be nullified; simply no record of offer background would become produced if obstructions had been not really resolved and added to the string by miners. The price that should end up being paid for this community protection is normally the large quantities of energy that a POW.  


Economic researcher Vasily Sumanov also believes that energy inefficiency and waste materials is normally currently the price we pay to conduct blockchain experiments:

Unsurprisingly, the computer hardware industry has responded to the demand for ever faster processing. Gone are the days when anyone could mine Bitcoin on an ordinary laptop. These days, you need a specialist mining rig with a dedicated processor known as an Application-Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC). These things don’t come cheap.

Big Pools Big Power
As with all hardware-intensive enterprises, those with the most bucks inevitably have the advantage. So miners have grouped together into “pools”, sharing resources and benefiting from economies of scale, which helps them to gain market share. Bitcoin mining is now dominated by three big pools, which together account for 55% of total hashpower. About 80% Bitcoin mining is presently done in China(I think it is reducing day by day specially in china as there government imposed the rules). But it is definitely developing in additional locations as well: Iceland, Asia, Georgia, the Czech Republic, India, parts of the United Expresses, Venezuela. With inexpensive and abundant energy anywhere, in reality. This is usually because, despite the equipment “hands competition,” by the biggest price for Bitcoin miners is normally power considerably.

Power era on the range needed for Bitcoin exploration requires property. A lot of it. Fossil fuel mines, hydro plant life, solar energy and blowing wind farms - all of them want property. And there is usually no place on this globe where usage of property is normally not really managed by federal government, one method or another. Will government authorities end up being prepared to dedicate bigger tracts of property to power era for cryptocurrency miners ever? It appears less likely. Nevertheless you appear at it, as Bitcoin’s energy demand boosts, inexpensive abundant electricity items for Bitcoin miners shall decrease.

Predictably, Bitcoin miners downplay both their energy use and the threat it poses to ordinary people, ordinary businesses and the planet that they occupy. They state that sites like the Bitcoin Energy Intake Index overstate power use, that Bitcoin exploration is certainly no even more costly than typical fund, that exploration is certainly just using excess electric power that is normally not really required by various other users, and that anyway exploration is a beneficial activity that provides wealth to the accepted areas that sponsor it. Unfortunately there is usually little proof to support their promises, and in parts of the U.S. it is normally very clear that the third state - that exploration just uses excess energy - is normally in fact untrue. But also if Bitcoin miners’ promises were true, Bitcoin would end up being completely reliant about federal government for its power source still, one method or another. It is usually anything but immune from federal government power, as its supporter’s state.  



Great things come with great prices, so does Bitcoin. It actually has a bigger threat for the future as our stats are showing. Rather than relying on the public power source, miners can made their own power source and start mining the reaming bitcoins, till then use the existing one as the exchange device and earn from it. People do not need to get disheartened as green energy and other potable energy sources are on the verge of creating market hype soon. Patience is the key here.



Don't take it negatively , i am writing article in this forum for long time still no intention to participate in any bounty campaign. Last month i felt i need for livelihood , But for the last update i just need 1 merit. Yes i am begging. Because i know i am capable enough for it. Just need the help of the community.
 

Considering how much energy the whole banking system of fiat-currencies uses, the amount bitcoin needs is more than fair.
If we think further in an idealistic way and consider a widespread replacement of fiat throuh crypto in the next decades, there will be even less energy needed.

In this context, the idea of proof-of-capacity (PoC) is also an interesting thing, as it already offers the technology without waiting.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proof-of-capacity

I know you have done a lot of Research,  but this forum has become so much scammy i cant believe. People will die with sMerits and will use it in heaven. Even one of my friend told me he got merit from a friend. So find friend with merits. Lots of merit,  there is no one cares for you,  for your content,  whatsoeve.  Anyway nevermind friend your content is good,  if i had merit i would give you.

I also think Bitcoin is consuming more power,  we have to think green.  

here we ago again the lies of wasting electric

so here goes
bitcoin mining farms (the smart ones) are not wasting electric.
power companies dont just produce to demand. they produce with EXCESS so that there is a buffer so that when homes turn on lights or cook something. the sudden change of electric draw doesnt cause brown outs

many big mining farms buy up some of this excess in a year long contract. because the excess cant be re-used/stored. so would go to waste otherwise.

by actually using the excess and having funds come from it allows power companies to expand and upgrade their facilities faster to be ready for future demands.

the math some have reported as being atleast 1% of world usage is a fallacy. the real numbers are around 10x less than that. (under 0.1%)
the article that reported the 1% were using 2015-6 hardware but with 2018 hashrate stats. which is like saying it takes an hour to get 3 miles because they base it on the speed of walking and not realise current tech is cars, trains, planes which are faster.

take the s9 antminer. 14thash using as much electric as 2 gaming PC's but producing as much hash power as double digit thousands of gaming machines

A lot of thing already be threat for environtment, and that is humanity. But if bitcoin mining can give something to fix it, maybe to build another alternative electricity will be very good. I not support or agree if we destroy with environment, but blame if only bitcoin which make our environment destroyed, it is totally wrong.

Bitcoin mining used electricity and by doing mining we used more electricity, but there are more activity that used more electricity, and we can used another electricity source to mine bitcoin, so I don't see how bitcoin mining could jeopardise the environment, everything in this world uswd electricity and the factory used more electricity than bitcoin mining, the bank also used more electricity than bitcoin, so I don't see this as problem

Yep we can't play with the environment for sure. But i think finding the green way will be the most sustainable solution we can ever have.

Bitcoin can only go Green by dropping the Proof of Work and moving to an alternative such as Proof of Stake.

The PoW miners have centralized control of bitcoin thru their PoW Mining Equipment, giving that up would give up their control.
They will never do it.

If you want energy efficiency, look into the alts as bitcoin is dead in the water on ever fixing their energy waste problem.

Sir i just got your words, but in case of PoS the New block is found through a deterministic way ( i read in google) , and it depends upon the stake and records. Does it mean the pool with maximum assets will find the block faster ?

In Proof of Stake,
The larger the number of coins per block the better your chance to stake.
Some calculate a coin weight = # of coin * days since last staked
(Their are multiple implementations with varying specs.)

Big Difference
in PoW your ASICS can try and mine every block,
in PoS  your coins go inactive for a defined period of time after the stake (varies with different coins)
This keeps a Proof of Stake Majority Coin Holder from dominating the block generation unlike a Majority Proof of Work Miner that could dominate a PoW network constantly.

Pooling is not as important in Proof of Stake as Proof of Work.
In some Proof of Stake coins it helps and in others no real difference , just depends on their specs.

* In Proof of Stake the blocks creation difficulty increases if the blocks are being found too fast,  and decreases if the blocks are not being found fast enough,
so pooling can't make more blocks be found than the daily limit set in the program code.*


 

There is an increase in green energy miners who will help to change the way miners consume energy. Most use solar energy but newer projects are looking at bigger alternatives like geothermal

actually the irony is that a lot more energy is wasted each time someone brings up this topic that has been discussed a million times and is wrong. and it is funny that the theme of it is always the same but the discussion is seemingly different. basically you all are ignoring the unimaginably huge utility that bitcoin is offering as a decentralized currency. you with your statements such as "bitcoin is taking away energy that could be used elsewhere" as if the energy production is capped and bitcoin is taking away from it! and others with similar statements.

What is really funny , is how all of those people that ignore bitcoin's energy waste
always seem totally clueless that Proof of Stake can provide an energy efficient method with a onchain transaction capacity higher than bitcoin.

Bitcoin has not been decentralized since the Chinese miner exceeded almost 70% over 2 years ago.
Bitcoin is now and will forever more be Centralized.

The problem with bitcoin is the rate it has been requiring more resources, it is exponentially growing at a rate that exceeds current energy infrastructure. And the current energy infrastructure is growing at less than 15% per year, Bitcoin is exceeding that % and will drive up prices or be banned depending on the Electric Utility's Choice. Some such as China are starting to Ban already and the miners used hydro-electric in China.
The places where mining is profitable is decreasing every few months.
It really does not matter whether you believe it or not, by 2021 the reality will be inescapable to all.
By that time Bitcoin Mining will be done only by the government sanctioned few or died because it was crushed by it own growing electricity input costs.

I know the outcome of Bitcoin is gigantic and we cant over respond the reality. In any case, for the survival we have to comprehend the result. We can't remark on this reality as a native of a developed nation. We have restricted measure of vitality , so why not think to spare it for our future. In the event that it isn't conceivable , we need to think this with sustainable power source. It is imperative for Bitcoin's Survival.

Because Green mining is possible, we have to change the way.

I've got a feeling that this topic does not even belong to a bitcoin discussion board because what OP is talking about is not about bitcoin and electricity despite the title. it is instead about electricity and the ways it is produced!
the "green" energies and the way you produce the electricity other than burning fossil fuels is a very good discussion but it is about electricity production and there is nothing bitcoin can do about it. bitcoin is a consumer of that energy and the consumer can not force the producer to change its ways. you have to focus on the producer instead of the consumer.

Plus electricity cannot be stored. Once its generated it should be used or else it goes to waste. There are some areas in the world that give big discounts to people to use more electrcity because the supply is more than the demand.

"Bitcoin's wasteful use of electricity" is propaganda to diabloize it.

FYI:
Electricity can be stored,

1. Batteries
2. Flywheels
3. Gravitational potential energy using a pumped hydroelectric facility.
4. Compressed Air Energy Storage
5. Rail Energy Storage
6. Molten Salt Storage
7. Thermal Energy Storage

Reference: http://discovermagazine.com/2015/july-aug/26-power-stash

 :)

Bitcoin + electricity = mining.
This is the way making profit in bitcoin I think bitcoin miners earn a lot of money from now and many year we already reach for mining Some people get rich for this method's of making profit. Until now mining is very profitable for them if they get lot of gpu miners.

I might be wrong but this article is delivering strong point of the adverse effect for bitcoin mining. Mining with is not profitable sir,  i am the worst sufferer of that.

Your topic seems fully legit for me. I swear i think implementing PoS might solve the problem. But is it viable to think to restructure the Bitcoin Process.

im laughing at the OP's stats
ireland uses 3.2gw a year!!?(seems low)

hmm
3.2million kw
imagine a pc, house lighting. fridges, washing machines.. screw it lets call it 6kwH a day minimal (£1 a day @16p/kwh)
(yea im using a yearly electric bill of £365 which seems low end for most people. but you will see why)

so low end 2190 kw a year per house
so ireland only has 1461 houses at low end or less houses if they used mor than £1 a day of electric..
(simple math anyone can do can see 3.2gw is not irelands entire yearly usage)
ireland uses 3.2gw AN HOUR!!

but lets go check how accurate even 3.2 is.. whether yearly or hourly
https://www.worlddata.info/europe/ireland/energy-consumption.php
"The most important measure in the energy balance of Ireland is the total consumption of 23.79 billion kWh of electric energy per year"
(23790gw a year, =65gwh per day,= 2.7gw per hour)
so its 2.7gw a hour....


now lets take bitcoin mining
~55exahash = 3928571 s9 asics (14terra hash. 1.3kwh)
3928571 asics=5107142kw per hour (5.1gw an hour)

yes bitcoin uses more gwh than ireland by a factor of nearly 2x
but a 2 seater car uses more fuel than a 2 seater motorbike by a factor of 3x
(omg shock horror destroy all cars!!!!(sarcasm))

an entire global currency uses more electric than a small island..... thats called twisting facts(comparing an international currency to an island of sheep, fields and.. Guinness)
now lets not twist things to create a propaganda shock drama
compare how much CHINA uses.. seeing as most of the mining propaganda is about "china own bitcoin".

https://www.worlddata.info/asia/china/energy-consumption.php
"The most important measure in the energy balance of China is the total consumption of
5,920.00 billion kWh of electric energy per year."

yep china uses 675gw per hour
but now compare that to the bitcoin mining of 5gw per hour

wait. the china own 51% of mining.. so using the propaganda against the propagandists..
2.4gw per hour mining vs 675gw general usage


.. but hell lets be extreme lets say all bitcoin mining was in china and go back to the 5gw per hour mining
5gw/h mining vs 675gw/h general usage (just for china... not whole world)
yea extreme numbers.. still amounts to bitcoin mining using LESS than 1% of just china

We can also look at a different angle, not just a solution on the side where we optimize the source of energy. We can improve the efficiency of processors so it would take less energy to solve more complicated mathematical puzzles. It might be harder to achieve, but I think this solution for long term.

processing efficiency is already happening.. its called asics
imagine doing 55exahash using CPU

(intel  i5/amd phenom ii)

1cpu =14mhash
1000=14ghash
1m cpu = 14thash

yep 1 ASIC is 1million PC's
so the 4million asics = 4 TRILLION PC's

try to imagine bitcoin if we remained CPU mining. requiring 4 trillion PC's

Actually the point to this topic is try to imagine,
if Bitcoin was not an energy hog sucking up excess electricity and causing the price of electricity to increase for general consumers
that have nothing at all to do with the crypto.

IE:
An Energy Efficient Proof of Stake uses less electricity per household than an XBOX and would have ~zero affect on the energy infrastructure.

While Bitcoin Wastes so much electricity that it increase environmental pollution , while raising energy prices ,
while straining local electricity grids, and requiring more natural resources to be drained for it's Limited Transaction Capacity.

Which is why by 2021 either bitcoin is dead or only mined by Government Sanctioned Miners.
Remember Bitcoin Miners have to receive Electric Utility Approval to draw that extreme amount of energy,
therefore at some point , Utility Approval can be used to control or destroy them.

While Proof of Stake can be run on a Laptop in a Coffee Shop , with no one the wiser that you are even doing it.  :)

The comparison is really just Amazing beyond words.

FYI:
Just to show Bitcoin Energy Waste is Growing Faster than Calculated.
This Article Stated Bitcoin would be using 0.5% of the world energy by the end of 2018.
https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/bitcoin-mining-energy-use-electricity-cryptocurrency-a8353981.html

But this Article points out that Bitcoin has already exceeded that 0.5% and already at 1% of the world's energy and we are not even out of 2018 Yet.  :P
https://theoutline.com/post/6047/bitcoin-mining-accounts-for-almost-one-percent-of-the-worlds-energy-consumption?zd=1&zi=7ed2ljca

I think that can only mean "One great solution for the world with one gib problem".. The elecetricity usage went so high with the bitcoin and the all other altcoin mining in all around the world. The number are terrifiying.. The cryptocurrency brings great things to our lifes yes but that much of usage can harm everything in the world.. I can't say threat or blessing but this could be something very important in near future for the world..

you are asking the wrong question; You should ask yourself if a technology that consumes energy necessarily have a high carbon footprint? Of course it's not.

For those interested, I share with you a 35-page personal study on Bitcoin's energy footprint;

Difficult since the beginning of the year not to fall on a newspaper article announcing that the Bitcoin network is an ecological disaster due to its high energy consumption. We will soon learn that Bitcoin miners are responsible for the non respect of the Kyoto protocol.

The Bitcoin network uses a large amount of energy. However how I said earlier, does a technology that consumes energy necessarily have a high carbon footprint?

After analyzing the mining sector and the energy sector, this argument does not hold if we take into account the rapid adoption of renewable energies by miners. Better yet, Bitcoin contributes to the development of alternative energy solutions, particularly hydroelectricity

Medium:
https://medium.com/@jicprusnel/bitcoin-as-an-environmental-subsidy-to-alternative-energy-1e91c427ab9e

PPt presentation:
https://www.slideshare.net/JeanChristopheBusnel/bitcoin-and-its-energy-footprint-120144132?qid=f0356e77-e70d-4053-95d9-39d6e7065cc7&v=&b=&from_search=1

Your Conclusion is wrong.

The World makes a Limited Supply of Energy , Bitcoin requires an ever growing amount of the limited supply.
Just because they monopolize hydro in one area , does not mean a Coal / Nuclear plant does not need to make up the difference on a electric grid to keep it from collapsing under the strain.  * Many Nuclear Plants also run Giant Diesel Generators when they need to decrease the output from the reactor.*
The World has still not found a way to dispose of nuclear waste safely without it taking 100s of years.

Limited Supply means when one source draws excessive amounts, it raises the price for everyone else.
Simple Economics.
Plus Saying the renewals can handle the load is pure nonsense, bitcoin rate of consumption is exceeding renewals growth by multiple amounts.

  

can both. become a threat because it requires a lot of electrical energy, can be imagined later when more and more bitcoiner. can be a blessing, because the state electricity company is selling well so that it gets big sales

zinzang

do the math research, not the media research
i really have to laugh at the independant newspaper article... how empty of real content
'he said x by 2018'
'he said y by 2020'
final quote
“But the future estimate? That’s quite debatable,” he said.
it made me laugh


bitcoin mining is not eating past the excess as shown before from actual math. bitcoin is not even 1% of china...
china actually produce 13% excess than demand. so its no where near eating into demand.

buying excess does NOT raise prices of the consumer demand. infact it helps lower prices.
imagine you produce 2000 bananas a day. it costs you $1k to grow that allotment.
but you only sell 1800 ono average. meaning you have to sell each banana for over 55cents
now you know 200 banana are going to waste unpaid for.
but tomorrow a vegetarian group that eats alot of banana wants to buy up your 100 of your excess
yay you are now selling 1900 bananas a day meaning you can sell your bananas at 53cents


as for the production. the asic farms are actually investing in their own power plants too thus wont even touch national/public demand in the future

oh and as for PoS. dont let me bring out the comedy moments of that.
currently because blocks on crap coins are not worth much, people dont care to bother untangling a crapcoin blockchain of PoS
but should something such as bitcoin move to PoS. you will see many people untangle and recombine new higher blockheight of bitcoin data and gain from it.
PoS is not safe, its just evaded attack by how little value can be gained by messing with it because crap coins are crap.

oh as for electric
did you know that cutting down trees to make wood for floorboards. so that wooden desks can sit on the floorboards so that paper can sit on the desks actually causes more environmental damage than a electronic tablet would which can store more pages than the desk and floorboards can

think about it.

Sir , So lame statement , You mean to say Cutting Down trees causes more harm than Bitcoin Mining. Lets clarify again we are not here to bargain which causes less damages or which causes more damages.  In both sense it will harm as well as damage our environment in long term.

We should think it for sustainable growth , who said to forget Bitcoin and trash it. Technology is developing day by day. Nothing is impossible. You are thinking about your lifeterm , 60 - 90 years may be. But here we have to think sustainable growth for next generations.

Don't just fight until winning with your lame argument. Today or tomorrow we have to think this idea.

Of course, no one can guarantee this, especially I) But see for yourself, the hashrate is growing steadily, the development is continuing steadily, in spite of the correction, maybe not as fast as we would like, but still. They want to do the same futures and ETFs not at some EOS, but only on Bitcoin (I mean not just paper speculation, but with real buying and selling). When the lightning network will be massively used, it will be possible to quickly and cheaply pay for inexpensive goods and services with Bitcoin. With the further development of Bitcoin, the increasing adaptation of SegWit and the unloading of the network from small and frequent transactions (thanks to non-log linening), the speed of transactions will increase many times and commissions will decrease. Of course, surely some Altcoins will occupy their niche, maybe they can earn a lot more money, but this does not mean that Bitcoin will definitely die out in a vacuum.

You didn't read the study. You answer make no sens because Nuclear isn't cost competitive with coal or hydropower. But if you wanna talk about it here or on private, please be free.

Furthermore, the Bitcoin ledger can only be immutable if and only if it is costly to produce. The fact that Proof-of-Work (PoW) is “costly” is a feature, not a bug. Bitcoin’s public ledger is secured by its collective hashing power. But Bitcoin doesn't need more energy for being censorship resistant. Bitcoin network is already censorship resistant, if the hash rate increase it's only because of the mining industry whose strictly profite motivated But thinking that this increase will be constant is wrong because every four years the reward decreases.

If Bitcoin continues rapidly, then perhaps in the future it will be the cause of the development of the energy industry. Bitcoin is really a major change in the life of mankind.

Sorry , there is no way you are going to convince me that Bitcoin Energy Waste is in any way acceptable.

The Crap coin argument about Proof of Stake falls on deaf ears with me,
Many Proof of Stake coins are worth millions so saying they evaded attack because there is no profit in attacking them is false logic.

By 2021 , I believe there will be no denying the issue, so I have no problem letting time be the final arbiter of our discussion.

Later,
ZZ

Storing mega mega mega watts of electricity? Are the efficient batteries? Efficient energy storage is one of the world's biggest problems. Why is that electricity must be used right away the moment when it is generated?

If all the electricity supply generated can be stored then it would change that market altogether.

Hmm right but if we use PoS,  and miners are out of network, will it hamper the process

Proof of Stake transactions speed can exceed bitcoin current PoW transaction speed ,
but it would hamper the miners ability of profiting by controlling bitcoin,
which is why the miners will never agree to switching consensus methods.

Fundstrat’s Sam Doctor tweeted the below image demonstrating the past performance of Bitcoin as it relates to the P/BE indicator.
https://cryptoiscoming.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/fundstrat-pbe.png

Doctor said:
    “We believe breakeven mining costs provide a support level for $BTC, as #miners – main natural #Crypto sellers – reduce selling at low $BTCUSD price. Based on expected computing hashpower and breakeven cost growth, that could imply #Bitcoin price of $36,000 by 2019 year end.”

Bitcoin mining wasn't generally this costly – it's a focused industry which has advanced from fans mining in their storm cellar on an old CPU to immense stockrooms loaded up with a great many dollars of specific ASIC miners or specially designed mining rigs with illustrations cards. The furor has come to the heart of the matter where gamers have seen illustrations card costs ascend out of their achieve, prompting a large number of them to detest the crypto development by and large.

As mining setups turn out to be further developed and rivalry increments alongside the trouble of the calculations, the value ascends ever higher. It's assessed that before the year's over, Bitcoin mining will devour 0.5% of the world's electricity.Ethereum miners haven't fared much better – in the wake of seeing a 20x increment in esteem, individuals ran to mining the number 2 cryptocurrency, yet falling costs and expanded rivalry have lessened rewards there also. Tom's Hardware discharged a diagram demonstrating the decrease in mining productivity from December to March when costs tumbled from $871 to under $500 where they remain today, bringing about a 10x decrease in mining gainfulness.

Some ICO field of operation is alternative energy
Such as WPP energy as well as the project I have its signature
In other words, crypto contributes to
the diffusion of alternative energy on a large scale.

It is a great blessing for our generation to come up with the ideas of using eletricity to create a financial system. If electricity is used in production of harmful explosive devices, why can't it be use to generate bitcoins which benefit us positively.

Since electricity is sold to people by utility companies, it's simply another sale. That's what they want, don't they? If they need to build more power plants just to sell electricity to miners, why not? More money for the utilities. More money for the various fuel companies that sell fuel to the utilities, right? More sales means better GDP, right?

8)

Well there is a downside to every blessings. Researches for more effecient ways to conduct electricity is in process. As the whle wolrd is going ECO, there might be a shift from the general use of electricity for the stations.

For better hashrate it is required to have good PC which demands a lot of energy source. There are demerits in every blessing but many are researching a way to be much more eco friendly.

Neither threat or blessings. We all know that for better hash rate we need better PC equipments and antminers which will take more energy resources. Now the question is how to maintain it, without hampering the daily necessity. Miners should get their own sources of electricity most probably green energy and stop putting pressure on fossil fuel or oil and gas. Thus things will be stable for everyone. If the sources cannot be made timely, miners should pause mining for a brief period of time and start dealing with the existing ones. Solutions are there, we just need to find it.

Mining bitcoin needs electricity. But the heavy usage of fossil fuels won't do any good to the environment. We just need to find a way that is more friendly towards environmen, more green energy I guess.

if I think bitcoin and electricity are very useful, bro. to build one's economy for the better. especially now the era is progressing. whereas business in the digital world is increasingly important because it follows the times

It should have been "electricity can not be stored in a profitable way".

None of these ways is what is considered "efficient".
It is more profitable to produce new energy instead of storing it.

actually "cannot be stored" is completely correct. when something is not done then it is not possible. for example you can not store electricity for usage of a small village in a "battery". so no it is not possible to store electricity.
also you should read that statement in its context not out of it. we are talking about large scale storage of Electricity that a electric company produces not a tiny scale electricity that you need to run your cell phone!

Interesting topic to discuss, but before I have read topics that are almost the same as this.
The presence of Bitcoin and crypto currency brings new trends and life for some people who know Bitcoin well. But of course this cannot be separated from the negative issue. One of them, as discussed in this topic, is that the presence of bitcoin is a driver to increase electricity consumption. As we know that bitcoin is very dependent on the internet and the internet cannot walk and work without electricity. This has become a conversation in tread in this forum. However, this cannot be a reference and a basis for determining or assessing Bitcoin as a threatening trend. In assessing a matter of course we must have a standard assessment. Is bitcoin the only one that consumes electricity so much, of course we have to do many things to find out and prove it.

However, we don't just look from one side. On the other hand, the presence of Bitcoin and crypto currency has a positive impact on the economic growth of a society. Where those who are able to bring in income from wrestling Bitcoin. The tenths of this will reduce the purchase value that is increasing because of the money that continues to flow.
I am very interested in the closing of this article, namely "we can green with bitcoin". This is what must be shared together in the

Really? Try and tell that to the 1000s of people who are using Elon Musk's Power Wall for load shifting, backup power, and off-the-grid use.  ::)

Elon Musk has proven that power storage can be profitable and he invested millions to do just that. Go read more about this project here, https://www.tesla.com/powerwall

We need to start thinking out of the box, like Elon Musk and his team of engineers, to reduce Bitcoin's electricity footprint.  ::)

maybe many people don't like bitcoin. they consider it a threat. but I personally consider it a blessing. because I can change my life to be better and more stable

Every time I am amazed how much time people spend to find information, collect, transform and post it to this website. I truly don't understand whether those merits cost your huge amount of time. What about topic... Well, Everybody here says that we need to find green way for bitcoin.. Of course, we do, but who will be dealing with that if now everybody too keen on making a profit from bitcoin. I mean, first, bitcoin has to become something bigger than it is today and only the start searching for its green way

you do realise that getting 1KW from the grid and putting it into a battery as potential energy. does not mean you will get out 1kw when you later use the potential energy

its why when you charge a battery for 6 hours you only get 2 hours USE out of the battery(dont pretend standby time is real use)

EG solar power to lightbulb direct=7 hours of light
EG solar power to battery to lightbulb =less than 7 hours of light

Hmm , you can tell you got nothing to do with the energy business.

Have you ever heard of Peak Times, this is the time during the day when the most electricity is being used and utilities charge higher prices.
There are companies that do nothing but store energy during OFFPEAK Times when electricity is cheaper and resell it back to the Utilities during Peak Times.
Those companies profit from the difference in the price, which exceeds any loss from storing it.

Some companies that have solar farms setup have even started placing trailers onsite that contain massive batteries,
they charge these batteries and then have a Semi move them to another location that is paying a higher electricity rate than that location.
Even with the gas used,  the % of power lost, and the truck driver wages, they make a profit off of transferring electricity by semi.

So the storage of Electricity and moving it where they can sell it for a higher price is a big deal and the smart players are starting to make a fortune off it.

your thoughts are well received by on a personal note I think the energy needed to mine bitcoin is fair enough considering the energy used in the banking sector or the energy required to produce and maintain fiat currency. Anything good always comes with a price to go bye.

   Bitcoin has been a subject globally spoken  by almost all  it was introduced by the year 2009 as a digital decentralized electronic currency .It is totally different from fiat currencies and Bitcoin is mined by running powerful computer programs .for this mining process a lot of electric energy is used so people like to go to places where electricity is cheaper  .The ups and downs of Bitcoin value is a blessing for the people and the downfall of price tends people to purchase more Bitcoins and during the hike of value people get the tendency to sell  for profit .Electricity is a threat even though Bitcoin is a blessing .

People who are bothered about BTC's energy consumption never adds up things like Currency Printing Costs, Costs for operating Banks and central banks and other related costs, lol.

Guys, alternative sources of energy are exactly the direction in which cryptocurrencies will move. This is inevitable.I like all the projects related to green energy and I watch them closely.Yes, the transition from fossil fuels to alternative fuel will be a very expensive pleasure, but in general, with the help of such projects, the Earth will be cleaner.Such projects are really worth the investment.

It is actually true that bitcoin as a digital currency, requires the use of an electricity to complete its transactions. Whether the consumption of electricity is high or not during mining, it can actually not be compared to the benefit it brings afterwards. As for me, i think its a blessing rather than a threat, and the energy consumption should be seen as a paid price.

I'm sure that many company try to use echo friendly for their electricity.
If we want to be more advance , we must think foward like crypto for me as the blessings.
No matter how hard they try, they will find the way / solution at the end because this is we called as revolution industry !

I believe that this problem with the consumption of electricity for the extraction of bitcoin is contrived. Now the world is quite effectively switching to the use of alternative methods of extracting energy using solar panels, using wind energy, and so on. Now anyone can put a solar power station and mine cryptocurrency. While the sun is shining, the energy in us is inexhaustible reserves. It only needs to learn how to intelligently take and use.