Quote from: franky1 on November 10, 2018, 01:56:22 PM

great response in such simple form

Only in the Bitcoin network produces about 50 quintillion operations per second. Based on each received us dollar, such calculations require 17 MJ of energy, this is two - three times more than the usual extraction of gold, platinum or rare earth metals. The only resource that requires energy greater than this level , is aluminum, the electrolysis of which consumes really huge amounts of enegry.

source: https://naked-science.ru/article/sci/mayning-kriptovalyut-trebuet-bolshe