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by em3rgent0rdr 5y ago
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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 agoI 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 agoSure, why not. Presumably all the features of Visa can be implemented in smart contracts.