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>It is the same with energy costs. Has anyone dared to calculate the CO2 release of traditional core banking systems or even running a large network of physical branches. No, because it's difficult and opaque. With the public blockchain these things actually can be calculated, which is a good thing I believe.

I think every major bank has got some folks doing that. It's a prerequisite of green washing.



No it's a prerequisite of not being incompetent.

Most companies monitor their power bills in order to ensure they are not needlessly wasting money by leaving lights or air-conditioning on etc.

Once you know your power consumption it's a pretty simple calculation to get CO2 usage.


That might be available on company but not on a system level. So I don't think there is no way to compare it with the energy consumption of an entire blockchain.


Which block chains require sharing the amount of CO2 released while adding a new block? How do the non accepted blocks get counted?


The energy consumption of a blockchain is not publicly available anywhere. What are you talking about?





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