The entire Bitcoin network uses 4x less energy than clothes dryers. Here are the numbers for *just the US*:
- 130M US households
- Avg household uses 12,000 KWh/yr (EPA)
- Dryers are 6% of household energy use (EPA) = 720 KWh/yr
- 720 KWh * 130M = 93.6 TWh
- Bitcoin uses ~90 TWh
Bitcoin requires so much computing activity that it eats up more energy than entire countries. One of the easiest and least disruptive things we can do to fight the
#ClimateCrisis is to crack down on environmentally wasteful cryptocurrencies.