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Kathy
Kathy
3 years ago

Jack, The video version on the web site today, 4/1/22, is last week’s video #3061 not the chat you did this morning #3066

npc
npc
3 years ago

Newsweek > Tech & Science : “Bitcoin Mining on Track to Consume All of the World’s Energy by 2020” > By Anthony Cuthbertson On 12/11/17 at 10:07 AM EST

Power hungry — Bitcoin’s insane energy consumption, explained > One estimate suggests the Bitcoin network consumes as much energy as Denmark. > Timothy B. Lee – 12/6/2017, 6:30 AM : Naturally, this is leading to concerns about sustainability. Eric Holthaus, a writer for Grist, projects that, at current growth rates, the Bitcoin network will “use as much electricity as the entire world does today” by early 2020. “This is an unsustainable trajectory,” he writes.

npc
npc
3 years ago
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https://grist.org/article/bitcoin-could-cost-us-our-clean-energy-future/

Grist > Bitcoin could cost us our clean-energy future > Eric Holthaus > Dec 05, 2017
“By February 2020, it will use as much electricity as the entire world does today.”

https://web.archive.org/web/20171201000000*/https://grist.org/article/bitcoin-could-cost-us-our-clean-energy-future/

Not seeing much prior to December 5th 2017 expressing a similar sentiment, but the quote in newsweek is either a paraphrase or I hit the wrong source (probably something like a twitter quote).

npc
npc
3 years ago
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Mike
Mike
3 years ago

Seen that guy read the fallen trees on Amazon prime . That’s was a great show ?

Mike
Mike
3 years ago
Reply to  Mike

Oops YouTube I guess?great watch though