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Layerjack (Onion Knight) | 5 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 What's the methodology for measuring the electricity consumption of bitcoin?
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dsbatten | 5 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Triangulates energy consumption days from hashprice index, CCAF and Blockware which are in broad agreement now.
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Layerjack (Onion Knight) | 5 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 What's the error range/margin? 300%?
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dsbatten | 5 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 They are all within 10% of eachother once you factor in PUE consistently across all measures. Cambridge energy consumption has improved a lot since they updated their miner mix in Aug last year.
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Layerjack (Onion Knight) | 5 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 How is the error margin calculated? This precision requires knowing the exact hardware.