The U.S government wants to crack down on the ballooning energy consumption of Bitcoin miners.

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.

      • riodoro1@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        10 months ago

        Fuck. You can !?

        I’ve been turning off my stove every time i used a hair dryer for nothing?

    • SeaJ@lemm.eeEnglish
      5·
      10 months ago

      I don’t think you understand how electricity works. Like at all. Do you think things max out at using 1 kWh? Why 1kWh and not simply 1 Wh? Or why could they not use 1 MWh? Should I inform the power company that they are clearly billing me wrong since they claim I use over 8760 kWh per year?

      Instead you should be surprised that they are consuming so much goddamn power for something that has little use.

    • Thorny_Insight@lemm.eeEnglish
      4·
      10 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?