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Just 137 crypto miners use 2.3% of total U.S. power — government now requiring commercial miners to report energy consumption (www.tomshardware.com)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/technology
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[–] exhaust_fan -3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Banks use negligible electricity lmao

[–] Snekeyes 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yeah. 600k Branches, 1 million atms, data centers..

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Including everything, about a million times less energy per transaction than crypto.

[–] orrk 4 points 1 year ago

yup, tho they also serve more people than crypto bros, about 100,000 times as many

[–] maness300 10 points 1 year ago

the banking industry

Might want to brush up on that reading comprehension.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

I think this is the most forced 'lmao' I have ever read