How many percent of the world electricity spent on mining — the answer scientists
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In February, the Icelandic businessman interesting Outlook. Version Johan Snorri's Sigurbergsson on mining in the country this year will leave more than the ordinary needs of citizens. Scientists have gone further and determined the percentage of the world's energy, which is consumed for mining cryptocurrency.
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The results of the study, the scientists published in the journal of the Joule. According to experts, the cost of production of coins is equivalent to Energouchet small European country. We are talking about 0.5 per cent of global capacity. It is reported .
The Figure commented Alex de Vries, Dutch economist at PwC.
A Lot of people tried to roughly estimate these figures, but one of my colleagues tried to study the mining of cryptocurrencies from a scientific point of view. For me, even 0.5% is a very shocking figure. If the price of Bitcoin will continue to grow, its share in electricity expenses can easily grow to 5 percent, which is very bad for the world economy.
According to scientist, now a network of miners every second produces 28 quintillion hashes, which requires not less than 2.5 gigawatts of electricity. If the rate of the main cryptocurrencies will continue to grow, the result will easily achieve 7.67 GW. This is comparable with the amount of energy that goes for residents of Austria or Ireland.
Sam de Vries hopes his study will provide an opportunity for politicians and economists to look at the situation from a different angle. In addition, the scientist relies on adequate market regulation of cryptocurrency in the future.
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