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Lee Duna to [email protected]English • 1 year ago

Each Bitcoin transaction uses 4,200 gallons of water — enough to fill a swimming pool — and could potentially cause freshwater shortages

www.tomshardware.com

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Each Bitcoin transaction uses 4,200 gallons of water — enough to fill a swimming pool — and could potentially cause freshwater shortages

www.tomshardware.com

Lee Duna to [email protected]English • 1 year ago
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Water used for power and maintenance of Bitcoin servers adds more environmental issues.
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    11•1 year ago

    Wasteful but not as bad as golf.

    https://www.deseret.com/2022/3/22/22988989/an-illogical-oasis-golf-course-water-usage-st-george-golf

    The U.S. Geological Survey’s most recent water use data for Utah shows the state uses about 38 million gallons of water on golf courses per day.

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      Uh, it’s far worse. That’s a mere 9k transactions. According to https://ycharts.com/indicators/bitcoin_transactions_per_day 12/3/23 had about 71k transactions. So bitcoin is using 7x the water that all the golf courses in Utah use. So in one day Bitcoin used as much water as Utah golf courses use in a week. Low point for this year was around 19k transactions. So still 2 days worth of Utah golf courses.

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        let’s stop it all.

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        Do you mean 3/12/2023?

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          No

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        I’d prefer they both stopped.

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            LOL get fucked.

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