> In terms of waste, cryptocurrencies are peanuts. I don't have a link for you, but just yesterday I read a headline saying bitcoin mining accounts for 5% of t

> In terms of waste, cryptocurrencies are peanuts. I don't have a link for you, but just yesterday I read a headline saying bitcoin mining accounts for 5% of the UK's energy expenditure. That's not peanuts. Now, even if that headline is wrong, here's a site that offers a Bitcoin Energy Consumption Index Chart (https://digiconomist.net/bitcoin-energy-consumption https://digiconomist.net/bitcoin-energy-consumption) and they say that bitcoin accounts for 0.08% of the world's electricity consumption. That seems absurdly high.