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BTC is about 0.5% of worldwide energy: https://ccaf.io/cbeci/index/comparisons https://ccaf.io/cbeci/index/comparisons So close to Sweden. Ethereum is much l

• kipchak 5y ago
  A bit of pedantry: BTC is .56% of electricity use, and .28% of energy use according to this site, though I don't grasp where the disparity of coming from other than many miners getting power directly from the energy source versus through the public electrical grid.
  • purpleflame1257 5y ago
    Other way around. There's a lot of energy us on the planet that isn't electrical (good examples being gas cooking, petrol, and biomass in the developing world).
  • JAlexoid 5y ago
    When you burn gas/coal/oil to heat your home that is also energy.