- Bitcoin Mining Requires Tons of Energy?
One of the few disadvantages of Bitcoin is the amount of energy required to mine it. Bitcoin mining takes up as much energy as a medium-sized country. Machines that run the software used to mine Bitcoin are big energy consumers. That is one reason why so few people spend their time mining Bitcoin. However, studies show that global video gamers eat up 40-50% more electricity than global Bitcoin miners, and no one complains about them. Also, upwards of 30-40% of the electricity used to mine Bitcoin is from renewable sources, while almost none of the electricity used for gaming is from renewable sources.
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