Just 137 crypto miners use 2.3% of total U.S. power — government now requiring commercial miners to report energy consumption

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Just 137 crypto miners use 2.3% of total U.S. power — government now requiring commercial miners to report energy consumption
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And there's no way to use it so that it doesn't consume huge amounts of energy because of greed and because of how computers work.

So very much a problem of using PoW.

you can certainly use it: using the protocol to transact doesn't contribute meaningfully to power consumption. power consumption is almost entirely in the mining.