Expressing bitcoin s energy consumption on a per transaction basis is a useful abstraction.
Bitcoin energy consumption per transaction.
The bitcoin energy consumption index provides the latest estimate of the total energy consumption of the bitcoin network.
This statistic shows average energy consumption per transaction for bitcoin compared to visa as of 2018.
Bitcoin uses x energy in total and this energy verifies secures roughly 300k transactions per day.
Each bitcoin transaction uses around 657 39 kwh of electricity the equivalent of 59 days of electricity for an average british household.
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Study reveals bitcoin s electricity consumption is underestimated and finds the network represents close to half of the current global data centre electricity use august 2020.
The average yearly energy consumption of the bitcoin network exceeds that of the entire nation of switzerland.
This difficulty increase could push future bitcoin transaction energy usage levels from 478 kwh per transaction today all the way to 900 kwh by the end of the year.