As Mining Expands, Will Electricity Consumption Constrain Bitcoin?
Since the modern economy has gone digital, it has come to require more electricity. Peter Kelly-Detwiler, co-founder of NorthBridge Energy Partners, LLC, a consulting firm that helps companies connect assets to power grids, examined the impact that expanding cryptocurrency is having on energy consumption in a recent Forbes article. He raises the possibility power supply could constrain bitcoin’s growth. Detwiler noted that while cryptocurrencies are ethereal, they depend on a very real support in electricity. He noted hundreds of megawatts of electricity are used to produce bitcoin,....
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