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Even FPGAs and older-process ASICs are unusable for Bitcoin today. The network hashpower just broke 1 exahash/second

• ethbro 11y ago
  Side question: does anyone have links on some power bounds for what the Bitcoin network is currently consuming? Understand it would be a very rough estimate, but seems like it would be possible to arrive at some kind of number given electricity prices as a ceiling and state of the art efficiency as a floor. Curious on what the magnitude is in relation to other things...
  • voltagex_ 11y ago
    The power/monetary cost of 1 megahash is going to be different in Australia than it is in China.
    • ethbro 11y ago
      That's why I said "bounds".