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Report ranking energy consumption of the leading Proof-of-Stake ledgers

• em3rgent0rdr 5y ago
  the report: http://blockchain.cs.ucl.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/UCL_CBT_DPS_Q32021_updated.pdf http://blockchain.cs.ucl.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/UC... Results Table VI: Global power consumption (i.e. the network-wide consumption of the DLT systems under consideration and VisaNet) and the energy consumed per transaction for contemporary throughput Platform | Per transaction (kW h/tx) Eth. 2.0 | 0.00009 – 0.00286 (High throughput projection) Eth. 2.0 | 0.01823 – 0.55713 (Low throughput projection) Algorand | 0.00017 – 0.00534 Cardano | 0.01239 – 0.37854 Polkadot | 0.00378 – 0.11556 Tezos | 0.00036 – 0.01096 Hedera | 0.00002 – 0.00004 Bitcoin | 360.39300 – 3691.40700 VisaNet | 0.00358
  • dane-pgp 5y ago
    I wonder if the people who currently say "Bitcoin should be banned because of its pointless CO2 emissions" will say the same about Visa once Ethereum overtakes it in efficiency. I won't hold my breath while I wait for that to happen though.
    • wmf 5y ago
      Sure, why not. Presumably all the features of Visa can be implemented in smart contracts.