Cryptocurrency

"Bitcoin Historic Sustainability Performance"

2022-01-01 [vendor] Digiconomist report [chain] bitcoin
Primary Source ↗
Blockchain(s) Bitcoin

Incident Details

Digiconomist released numbers for 2021, showing that during 2021, Bitcoin consumed 134 TWh in total — comparable to the energy consumption of Argentina. The report also claims that Bitcoin was responsible for 0.54% of global electricity consumption, and consumed about 89% more energy in 2021 than in the previous year.

Technical Details

Vendor / Product
Digiconomist report

Timeline

  1. 2022-01-01 Breach occurred
  2. 2022-01-01 Publicly disclosed