18 Will mining significantly increase the power consumption of my PC? 2011-09-11T04:16:17.717

16 Will the amount of electricity used for mining be huge if Bitcoin is widely adopted? 2011-09-05T18:14:30.633

13 Can it really be true that the Bitcoin system consumes almost $1.000.000 in electricity per day? 2014-11-02T19:57:19.637

11 What can be done to slow/prevent mining centralization? 2016-05-31T17:50:07.073

10 What is the ecological effect of increased work for the Bitcoin chain? 2012-01-07T03:27:07.590

9 Where in the world is bitcoin mining the most profitiable? 2011-09-11T14:38:53.583

8 Will the energy cost and deflationary nature of Bitcoins doom the currency to obscurity? 2013-10-20T04:07:39.860

7 World-wide price for generating 1BTC 2011-10-17T19:55:19.833

6 Is the current network difficulty algorithm appropriate for "Peak transaction-only mining"? 2012-11-19T18:37:23.927

6 How much energy will the Bitcoin network eventually consume? 2013-04-21T15:47:02.593

5 Does difficulty ever stop increasing? 2013-04-18T04:07:34.073

5 All else being equal which is better for the environment, Litecoin or Bitcoin? 2015-06-30T05:09:34.303

5 What can be done with old (unprofitable) ASICs? 2016-05-21T08:13:25.887

5 Keeping old blocks on an external hard drive and latest blocks on an SSD 2017-01-23T16:17:18.723

5 In the case that I have free electricity, is mining worth it? 2017-12-05T00:45:02.930

4 What has a lower long term cost per hash: LTC, BTC or other alt coin? 2013-03-08T18:14:04.110

4 What are the limits of ASIC Mining? 2014-05-10T02:26:25.733

4 How does bitcoins power consumption compare to other financial institutions/exchanges? (ie banks, stock exchanges) 2017-12-11T16:14:24.700

4 What is a likely solution to Bitcoin's energy consumption problem? 2017-12-17T18:09:12.250

3 Mining costs, impact on long term viability of BTC 2014-04-08T01:58:28.983

3 What is the average amount of electrical power required to complete one Bitcoin transaction? 2017-11-03T13:48:56.633

3 As transactions are getting increasingly slow and expensive, how can Bitcoin compete against newer better currencies? 2017-12-27T05:29:07.340

2 How do I protect my mining rig from brownouts and electrical surges? 2012-10-19T16:44:45.727

2 How can one estimate the amount of Watts that is consumed by the mining network as a whole? 2013-03-07T03:57:00.310

2 Electricity cost of mining 2013-12-15T17:26:26.960

2 BTC transaction cost vs fees 2016-09-14T22:36:22.123

2 How does the computational cost of verifying transactions scale with the number of total transactions? 2017-12-04T07:13:52.933

1 If Bitcoin mining is becoming more and more impractical, what then? 2013-04-09T04:48:37.783

1 disregard power costs for mining in the winter? 2013-11-20T01:19:24.900

1 Which percentage of miners are using ASICs vs GPUs or FPGA? Is it possible to know? 2013-12-21T21:41:25.057

1 A Butterflylabs 5 GH/s Bitcoin Miner running at 270 Watts? 2013-12-22T10:18:55.070

1 Bitcoin mining by using solar energy. Is it possible? 2014-02-15T12:09:50.143

1 Would free energy cause a market collapse? 2016-12-13T01:24:13.787

1 Who Really Controls Bitcoin? 2016-12-13T09:02:49.863

1 Is this the answer to Bitcoin's massive energy consumption issues? 2017-08-22T14:09:22.200

1 can cryptocurrencies be energy efficient? 2017-09-02T08:49:37.330

1 What would be the benefits of 10x the energy spent 2017-09-19T11:57:29.610

1 How much power for mining single Bitcoin or bitcoin cash? 2018-02-02T17:22:57.550

1 What is the marginal energy cost of a bitcoin transaction? 2018-06-11T18:11:46.140

1 How much money in terms of electricity and hardware was invested into blockchain? 2019-07-11T21:17:22.033

0 Uses of computing power by bitcoin miners 2013-11-23T01:29:34.757

0 What are the political and environmental implications of growing Bitcoin electricity consumption? 2016-12-24T03:44:54.967

0 How many CPU's work on blockchain today? 2017-12-21T19:54:09.237

0 Is there a significance as to why bitcoin mining "costs" time/energy/money? 2018-01-05T06:41:57.867

0 Can Bitcoin be "shutdown" if energy consumption for mining is heavily regulated? 2018-01-18T21:51:53.450

0 What is the reason to pay miners "monetary rewards" for mining process? 2018-08-15T19:35:57.867

0 How much electricity and time would mining a bitcoin consume right now? 2019-06-28T16:58:25.720

-2 Bitcoin - Green mining 2012-11-15T18:01:45.567