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Ethereum plans to scale is not just on the switch to PoS. It will also include layer-2 systems. In any case, currently there are ~300000 validator nodes runnin
by rglullis 5y ago
Ethereum plans to scale is not just on the switch to PoS. It will also include layer-2 systems.
In any case, currently there are ~300000 validator nodes running the beacon chain, which does not require powerful hardware. For comparison, 13.4M units of the Playstation 5 were sold since 2020. 116.6M units of the PS4 were sold since 2013. I'd like to know the number of servers runnning Minecraft there are around, but you can unarguably say that people waste more energy playing videogames than with the ethereum network.
- inlined 5y agoPS5 uses a peak of 200W[0]. If they were used constantly, it would be 200Wh/h or 1.75MWh/yr. 13.4M PS5s would kick that up to 23TWhr/yr. The energy use of Eth is estimated at over 100TWHr/yr[1]. So no… even if every PS5, a chip that has climate scientists worried, that was ever created was left doing something horribly inefficient (say, computing PoW coin) 24x7 it would be using a quarter of this one coin’s energy consumption. [0]: https://www.gamesradar.com/why-climate-scientists-think-the-ps5-and-xbox-series-x-are-still-too-much-of-an-energy-drain/#:~:text=A%20new%20report%20from%20the,energy%20usage%20of%20their%20predecessors https://www.gamesradar.com/why-climate-scientists-think-the-.... [1]: https://www.statista.com/statistics/1265897/worldwide-ethereum-energy-consumption/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/1265897/worldwide-ethere...
- rglullis 5y agoForget about PoW. I was talking about the 300k PoS validators on the Beacon chain ("ETH2.0"). You can run a validator on less than 10W. Any cheap celeron can do it.