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Just Wonder Who is Paying Bitcoin’s Energy Bill ?

Will Non Crypto Investors need to share the Bills ?

By EstalontechPublished 2 years ago 6 min read
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The massive amounts of computing power required to mine new bitcoins has caused the costs of energy to rise for household residents and businesses.

It is True , millions of people who are still “ Clueless” about what is Bitcoin or have neither mined nor traded on cryptocurrency or the bitcoin are nevertheless still paying for bitcoins to exist. That’s because the vast computing power needed to create new bitcoins consumes excessive amounts of electric power and has driven up electricity bills for type of enterprises and monthly expenditure of household residence

For this reasonm, every consumer should know the existence of this issue, but how to resolve these, They will leave it to the Fed , or at least somebody need to remind the Congress . It is a Justificable reason that “ Somebody should be granting us free electricity ! “

The internet has become the center of commerce as the world’s first decentralized digital currency called Bitcoin is accepted by millions of online retailers. The computing power required to create one Bitcoin rises with more users joining the bitcoin network.

In order to figure out how to calculate the amount of electricity used to power the bitcoin network, you’ll need to understand how bitcoin creation works. By looking at how the bitcoin network is built, we can determine how many sums are done in the network to find out how much electrical energy is used in bitcoin creation.

Bitcoins are created when a user solves complicated mathematical equations to produce new ones. These “miners” use very sophisticated computers or servers hardware to complete the task and produce the new bitcoins. Because of the increasing demand for the new bitcoins, the process is energy-intensive and requires significant amounts of electricity. As this leads to greater demand for electricity, more users are drawn into the process and it continues to grow.

With more and more people entering the cryptocurrency space, the value of Bitcoin increases. As the demand for energy grows, the difficulty of mining will also grow. Therefore, the number of people who mine will increase. This increases the price of energy.

This is a built-in process of the Bitcoin network. It is a method of ensuring that there is always enough participants mining blocks in the Bitcoin network. As more miners enter the market, the greater the difficulty will be. This means that the problem of solving a block will require more energy.

This is an intended feature of the blockchain code. If miners stop competing to validate transactions, and fewer people have to move each block along; the difficulty of validating a block decreases. This ensures that there will always be enough different and competing parties working to verify transactions in bitcoin and throwing their computing power at bitcoin in an attempt to get the block reward (currently 12.5 bitcoin per block — about 10 minutes). The “halving you hear about is when that 12.5 bitcoin reward every 10 minutes becomes 6.25.

Some of the above is an explanation of how the Proof of Work consensus algorithm in Bitcoin works. It’s the only way that blocks of transactions are linked together to form a chain, so that users can be sure that their transactions are valid and not being forged . In effect, the more energy that is being used….the more “secure” the blockchain becomes. That is the whole point.

This allows cryptocurrency to create a value for resources which have never had any monetary value before.

While the decentralized structure of Bitcoin is what makes it such a popular cryptocurrency, it also makes it very energy intensive. The more computational power needed to verify transactions, the more energy is used, in order to create the Bitcoin currency, there are multiple computers all racing to process the transactions and answer a mathematical problem as fast as possible. The fastest computer also earns a small reward for doing this work.

The early days of Bitcoin saw electricity consumed in small amounts to solve the complex math problems inherent to the currency. However, as more and more people joined the currency, solving the mathematical puzzles became harder and harder. Eventually, that energy consumption will increase to the point where it is far more expensive than traditional currencies.

As more and more advanced computing systems enter the Bitcoin ecosystem, the race becomes more intense and ultimately it is the computer with the most computing power that wins. The computers that enter the race are getting more sophisticated, requiring ever more computing power. As a result, it is becoming harder and harder to predict which computers will win the race. But most of them had a low level of performance and the operations required to mine bitcoins consumed lots of energy.

Today, some businesses have concentrated on designing ASIC-based bitcoin mining computers. Such computers require a lot less energy to perform computations and can be operated at the same wattage level as other electrical devices such as a light bulb.

If this information is correct, the Bitcoin network consumes 120 GW per second. This translates to around 63 TWh per year.

An astounding amount of power was produced by natural gas plants in the United States last year. That’s enough energy to power 1.3 million houses

Although there are several hundred bitcoin miners currently operating in the world, it takes 10 minutes to mine a bitcoin, even with the average power usage provided by the current generation of ASIC miners. With 72,000 gigawatts (72 Terawatts) of power being used to mine bitcoins, it would take a miner in China to produce one bitcoin in just ten minutes.

A single computer using a hash rate of one watt per gigahash per second would use less power than a typical residential miner. However, media outlets and bloggers report that some residential miners use more power than this.

Bitcoin mining costs vary depending on the region.

To calculate how much power it would take to make a bitcoin, you need to first find out how much electricity costs where you live. Then, to calculate how much power you need, you would need to know the type of equipment you want to use and whether or not it is energy-efficient. Lowering electricity costs means cheaper bills, and more efficient mining equipment requires less electricity. The lower the cost of electricity, the less money miners have to spend on it. After all costs are taken into account, a cheaper location for mining equipment means higher prices for Bitcoin., which is why China was formerly one of the largest miner before they were taken down

Bitcoin’s value has always fluctuated wildly, but the price should stay above the cost to produce a bitcoin as long as it’s price stays below the cost to produce a bitcoin in a location with low electricity costs.

The real cost of mining bitcoin

The price of Bitcoin will depend on how much energy it takes to create it. The difficulty level of the algorithm that creates the Bitcoin will change over time, and that will determine how much energy it takes to create it.

The growth of the Bitcoin network is directly related to the price of the coin. It seems that if the price of Bitcoin rises, so does the number of nodes (computers working on mining Bitcoins). Eventually, the growth of the network will outweigh the benefits of environmentally friendly production.

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