The bitcoin energy consumption index provides the latest estimate of the total energy consumption of the bitcoin network.
Bitcoin energy consumption per transaction.
Expressing bitcoin s energy consumption on a per transaction basis is a useful abstraction.
This statistic shows average energy consumption per transaction for bitcoin compared to visa as of 2018.
Each bitcoin transaction uses around 657 39 kwh of electricity the equivalent of 59 days of electricity for an average british household.
According to the source one bitcoin transaction consumes about 1005 kilowatt hours of.
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.
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 massive computer rigs are also creating a mountain of.
Told bbc news that the network processes fewer than 100 million transactions per.