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Bitcoin mining right now is around $12 billion in production, and on average the miners are now in profit at recent prices, since they are paying something like 3 c per kWh on average, certainly the publicly traded ones are paying much less than average electricity pricing. Your calculations seem pessimistic in that regard.

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Stephen Perrenod
Stephen Perrenod

Written by Stephen Perrenod

supercomputing expert, astrophysicist, technology analyst, orionx.net, author of DarkMatter, DarkEnergy, DarkGravity

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