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Great Scott! Bitcoin to consume half a per cent of the world's electricity by end of year

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"8.92 gigawatts of electricity consumed, exceeding that of Austria."

>That's a lot of power that could be put to better use.

Yep - for only another 0.7GW (9.62GW) you could launch a Space Shuttle.

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