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Doesn’t this speak mostly to the US not cleaning up their grid? Obviously the huge amount of wasted energy going into Bitcoin is insane, but it wouldn’t cause h

• rtkwe 6y ago
  The US is actually a tiny portion of the hash rate in the BTC network. China makes up 70%+ of the hash rate of the network and they use a lot of coal power, ~62% of their power generation is handled by coal power. Basically no where is to the point we can just add power draws and say they have no health impact. Energy being fungible until an grid is to the point of having excess renewable power during the day and miners being spun up and down to absorb that excess any mining will have health impacts. I think the spin up and down is important too because it means over night miners aren't causing excess capacity to be built for storage. https://cbeci.org/mining_map https://cbeci.org/mining_map https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electricity_sector_in_China https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electricity_sector_in_China