The miner, which right now under the table, buzzing, mining cryptocurrency, computer or even a small farm, certainly not too often think about how much all these graphics cards, extracting “bitki”, “guzzle”? A lot, Yes — that’s understandable coming every month electricity bills. But as all miners of the world are wasting electricity? Let’s find out.
If you collect all cryptocurrency miners together and organize for them a special state, then the ranking of all countries by electricity consumption “land of miners” is 71.
When meinig cryptocurrency has become a popular and fashionable activity, this has caused not only a shortage of graphics cards, but also a significant increase in energy consumption, because not everyone in the world cost a couple of video cards, or home farms. Some businesses equip yourself a giant room with thousands and tens of thousands of video cards, motherboards and processors! Add to this advanced cooling systems, monitors and other necessary for a successful cryptocurrency mining devices — and now a small town jealous of your appetites envy.
But if the shortage of video cards primarily to blame for cryptocurrency Etherium, then more power “guzzle” just bichenovii farm. All the Bitcoin miners and Etherium consume more electricity than, say, Jordan, Iceland or Syria. On the extraction of Etherium, there are nearly five terawatts/hour of electricity, and mining Bitcoin it takes three times more.
If to speak simple and understandable language, all the bitcoin miners spend together is 27 times more electricity than the entire Visa payment system. And the figures continue to grow. Needless to say, now that electricity may be sufficient to more than satisfy the needs of half a million households in the United States, and in Russia — and even more.
Mining cryptocurrencies requires more electricity than all of Syria
Vyacheslav Larionov