Some Bitcoin statistics to start the year:
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During 2021 Bitcoin consumed 134 TWh in total, which is comparable to the electrical energy consumed by a country like Argentina.
Related CO2 emissions were ~64 Mt; enough to negate the entire global net savings from deploying EVs.
In 2021 the Bitcoin network handled ~97 million transactions. This equals roughly 0.012% of the worldwide volume of non-cash transactions. Bitcoin was responsible for 0.54% of global electricity consumption. On average, that’s 1,386 kWh per Bitcoin transaction.
The power consumed per Bitcoin transaction on average could power an average US household for more than 1.5 months. The carbon footprint of just one Bitcoin transaction amounts to 658kg of CO2, which is equal to the carbon footprint of almost 1.5 million VISA transactions.
It’s also a bigger carbon footprint than the per passenger carbon footprint of a direct flight from Amsterdam to New York. In total, the Bitcoin network consumed ~89% more energy in 2021 than in 2020.
[Source : [https://digiconomist.net/bitcoin-historic-sustainability-performance](https://digiconomist.net/bitcoin-historic-sustainability-performance/)]
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