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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 (www.tomshardware.com)
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[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Different transactions use different amounts of space so it's always going to be a rough estimate.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

Yep. That 3.5k I pulled out of my ass was just by looking at a graph of max transactions per block thus far. It highly depends on the efficiency of the transactions and size of each.