Just 137 crypto miners use 2.3% of total U.S. power — government now requiring commercial miners to report energy consumption::The U.S Energy Information Administration is now requiring large-scale cryptomining operations to report their energy consumption. Inevitably this will bring about new regulations that will restrict the energy consumption of miners in the future.

  • Thorny_Insight@lemm.ee
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    9 months ago

    …what? Are you implying there aren’t enough hours in a year to use up that much energy? That doesn’t make any sense. What do you imagine is the maximum amount of energy a single person can use then?