Bitcoin miners are losing $19,000 on every BTC produced as difficulty drops 7.8% (www.coindesk.com)

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[-] musicalphysics@discuss.online 1 points 19 hours ago

Bitcoin runs on electricity, not internal combustion engines. Bitcoin’s use of energy is no more or less damaging to the environment than any other electricity user in the same area.

[-] a_non_monotonic_function@lemmy.world 1 points 16 hours ago

Cool, cool. Which of my appliances requires 535.6 megawatt-hours to run? I mean, my house is about 10, so I may be missing something.

[-] musicalphysics@discuss.online 3 points 4 hours ago

Again your comments don’t actually address the argument at hand.

[-] a_non_monotonic_function@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

I'm sorry, let me clarify. A megawatt is a unit of electricity.

[-] musicalphysics@discuss.online 1 points 52 minutes ago

I am well aware.

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