I guess half a percent of the world's electricity consumption isn't that much in the grand scheme of things, but if Bitcoin's price goes up 10X then so will its

I guess half a percent of the world's electricity consumption isn't that much in the grand scheme of things, but if Bitcoin's price goes up 10X then so will its energy usage. Mining effort is proportional to the value of the block reward. https://cbeci.org/cbeci/comparisons https://cbeci.org/cbeci/comparisons