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>Christmas lights Well, let's see >Bright lights strung on American trees, rooftops and lawns account for 6.63 billion kilowatt hours of electricity consumpti

>Christmas lights Well, let's see >Bright lights strung on American trees, rooftops and lawns account for 6.63 billion kilowatt hours of electricity consumption every year [1] >Bitcoin mining consumes around 91 terawatt-hours of electricity annually. [2] Huh. That's at least the same order of magnitude, at any rate. [1] https://phys.org/news/2015-12-christmas-energy-entire-countries.html https://phys.org/news/2015-12-christmas-energy-entire-countr... [2] https://www.businessinsider.com/bitcoin-mining-electricity-usage-more-than-google-2021-9 https://www.businessinsider.com/bitcoin-mining-electricity-u...

plokiju 5y ago
And that’s only looking at US Christmas lights, not world-wide
- knorker 5y ago
  Even extremely generously scaling it up by population that still means Bitcoin uses three orders of magnitude more.
  - NhanH 5y ago
    Billion kilo is already the same magnitude as tera (it’s kilo-> mega-> giga -> tera: 1000^3). Did I miss something or is your comment factually incorrect?
    - knorker 5y ago
      No that was me. Gah, megakilowatthours. :-(
- LordDragonfang 5y ago
  It's also only looking at bitcoin, which is less than half of total crypto mining by energy usage. Adding ETH alone already doubles it. Meanwhile, I'd reckon that the US accounts for the majority of Christmas lights.