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Then again they run on magnitudes more computers.
by AndrewThrowaway 4y ago
Then again they run on magnitudes more computers.
- zitterbewegung 4y agoASICS can pull 3 kilowatts. A MacBook Air m1 pulls 15 watts and a gaming computer is around 750 watts.
- dwohnitmok 4y agoWARNING: lots of handwaving arithmetic, but in the spirit of "if it's worth doing, it's worth doing with made-up statistics" (https://slatestarcodex.com/2013/05/02/if-its-worth-doing-its-worth-doing-with-made-up-statistics/ https://slatestarcodex.com/2013/05/02/if-its-worth-doing-its...) I was curious so I checked on my computer. I don't have Discord, but I do have Slack on and use it all the time (calls, screen sharing, the whole shebang). All Slack-related processes in total have used about 0.6% of my total CPU time (a bit of a high estimate because of how that calculation takes into account things like wakeup, but let's go with it). My computer uses probably about 15 watts on average as a high-end estimate. That gets us to about 0.09, say 0.1 watts on average. My computer is on for about half the day, so let's say 0.05 watts. If we consider Slack's current active user stats (it looks like 10 million?) that gets us 500 kilowatts. It seems like most sources agree that Bitcoin's power usage is probably around 10 gigawatts. So based on Slack's current usage stats I'm guessing there's around 4-5 orders of magnitude in difference between Slack power usage and Bitcoin power usage.