{"id":6115,"date":"2022-06-24T12:37:55","date_gmt":"2022-06-24T10:37:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/06\/24\/electricity-used-to-mine-bitcoin-plummets-as-crypto-crisis-widens\/"},"modified":"2022-06-24T12:37:55","modified_gmt":"2022-06-24T10:37:55","slug":"electricity-used-to-mine-bitcoin-plummets-as-crypto-crisis-widens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/06\/24\/electricity-used-to-mine-bitcoin-plummets-as-crypto-crisis-widens\/","title":{"rendered":"Electricity used to mine bitcoin plummets as crypto crisis widens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Consumption down by third since 11 June, with even sharper falls among other cryptocurrency networks<\/p>\n<p>The amount of electricity consumed by the largest cryptocurrency networks has decreased by up to 50% as the \u201ccrypto winter\u201d continues to eat at the incomes of \u201cminers\u201d and financial contagion spreads further throughout the sector.<\/p>\n<p>The electricity consumption of the bitcoin network has fallen by a third from its high of 11 June, down to an annualised 131 terawatt-hours a year, according to estimates from the crypto analyst Digiconomist. That still equates to the annual consumption of Argentina, with a single conventional bitcoin transaction using the same amount of electricity that a typical US household would use over 50 days.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2022\/jun\/24\/electricity-consumption-mine-bitcoin-plummets-crypto-crisis-widens-cryptocurrency\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/b04e8761ad85f273a779085c5750e837d8f55721\/0_403_6240_3744\/master\/6240.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=59543bd68cbd465f6aa816e0c526ac06\" title=\"Electricity used to mine bitcoin plummets as crypto crisis widens\" \/>Consumption down by third since 11 June, with even sharper falls among other cryptocurrency networks<br \/>\nThe amount of electricity consumed by the largest cryptocurrency networks has decreased by up to 50% as the \u201ccrypto winter\u201d continues to eat at the incomes of \u201cminers\u201d and financial contagion spreads further throughout the sector.<br \/>\nThe electricity consumption of the bitcoin network has fallen by a third from its high of 11 June, down to an annualised 131 terawatt-hours a year, according to estimates from the crypto analyst Digiconomist. That still equates to the annual consumption of Argentina, with a single conventional bitcoin transaction using the same amount of electricity that a typical US household would use over 50 days. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Consumption down by third since 11 June, with even sharper falls among other cryptocurrency networks The amount of electricity consumed by the largest cryptocurrency networks has decreased by up to 50% as the \u201ccrypto winter\u201d continues to eat at the incomes of \u201cminers\u201d and financial contagion spreads further throughout the sector. The electricity consumption of &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/06\/24\/electricity-used-to-mine-bitcoin-plummets-as-crypto-crisis-widens\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Electricity used to mine bitcoin plummets as crypto crisis widens<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":6116,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6115"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6115\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}