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
    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 :)