Ethereum is green
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The unit of energy we’ll use in this post is the kilowatt-hour (kWh). This quantity is called “one unit” on electricity bills, and it costs a domestic user about 12 cents in the US.

A 10,000 mAh power bank is able to run 10 validators (including Geth + Rocket Pool) on a Raspberry Pi for 10 hours.

The Pi consumes 5 watts, so that comes to around 0.1 KWh’s of energy per day for 10 validators, or 0.01KWh per validator.

That 3600x more energy efficient than Bitcoin PoW, or, put another way, a 99.97% reduction in power.

  • tracyspcyM
    53·
    4 years ago

    Ethereum is still pow, everything else is just speculations. Btw market is full of smart contract platforms utilizing pos already, like tron for ex… So no need to promote ethereum, you can create wrong picture for people new to crypto.

    • null_radixOP
      81·
      4 years ago

      Yes ETH is still half pow (the beaconchain is running) but pos on ETH is making solid progress. For example, There is a pos only testnet now. I would except to pos on mainnet late q4 early q1 next year.

      As for Tron and the likes (bsc, eos, ect) are all base off dpos, which can only support a few number of validators making them questionable when it comes to their claim on decentralization. There are few others projects that are interesting though for example avalanche.

      As for creating the wrong picture for ppl new to cryto… ETH is in my opinion the best place to get started. Tron is a scam that is ran by sociopath. Eos is worse. I defiantly don’t want to create the wrong picture by leading ppl to use a platforms that have no value when it comes to decentralization and only exist to make their founders rich. I’m also most comfortable talking ETH, since I know it fairly well.

      • tracyspcyM
        31·
        4 years ago

        Factually ETHEREUM is pow, it not half pow half pos, whole operations are depending on pow consensus mechanism. Period. Any interactions with ethereum from sending eth to calling smartcontracts are depending on pow and miners and energy waste. Facts are objective, and not rely on your personal sympathy.
        What you are doing is promoting one of coins by providing misleading information.

        • null_radixOP
          41·
          4 years ago

          What is considered a waste is also subjective and a personal sympathy as well. You can indeed send ETH without pow although its still just testing. Pow is on its way out. period. How am I being misleading?

          • tracyspcyM
            1·
            4 years ago

            looks like a very hard case here 🤦🤦🤦 if you are talking of potential improvement or sandbox you should mention that in title, otherwise you use misleading title, reading that people may think ETH is green because it use pos, but it is wrong.

              • tracyspcyM
                1·
                4 years ago

                where you have found unkindness here? Fact’s are important, misleading is dangerous as it is money related. And btw this post got even more attention after title update :)