The rising vitality demand of proof-of-work cryptocurrencies similar to Bitcoin (BTC) has been a hotly debated subject. However the third Internati
The rising vitality demand of proof-of-work cryptocurrencies similar to Bitcoin (BTC) has been a hotly debated subject. However the third International Cryptoasset Benchmarking Research by the College of Cambridge reveals that 76% of cryptocurrency miners use electrical energy from renewable vitality sources as a part of their vitality combine.
The research discovered that over 39% of the overall vitality consumed by PoW cryptocurrencies together with Bitcoin, Ether (ETH), Bitcoin Money (BCH) and others comes from renewable vitality sources.
That is in distinction to a earlier such research by the college, which discovered that solely 28% of the overall vitality consumed for cryptocurrency mining got here from renewable sources. In 2018, 60% of the miners used renewable vitality sources as a part of their vitality combine.
In response to the most recent research, hydroelectric energy is the commonest supply of vitality for miners. Virtually 62% of miners are reported to be utilizing hydroelectricity. Coal and pure fuel sources take the second and third spots at 38% and 36%, respectively.
Wind, oil and photo voltaic vitality are the three different widespread vitality sources for cryptocurrency miners.
The report additional divides miner vitality consumption by area, noting that miners from Asia-Pacific, Europe, Latin America and North America use an nearly equal proportion of hydroelectric energy as in comparison with electrical energy from different sources similar to coal, pure fuel, wind and oil.
Power from coal is most typical within the APAC area, contributing nearly an equal quantity of electrical energy to miners as hydroelectric sources. No miners from Latin America use coal-fired electrical energy to mine cryptos.
The report additionally notes that APAC miners contribute nearly 77% of the Bitcoin hash energy however use the bottom quantities of renewable vitality sources. And whereas North America provides solely 8percentof the overall hash energy, 63% of the vitality consumed in mining Bitcoin got here from renewable sources. Europe is simply second to North America with nearly 30% of its cryptocurrency mining powered utilizing renewable vitality. The continent contributes almost 10% of the worldwide Bitcoin hash energy.