Mining energy consumption
with the rising price of bitcoin, more and more people join the bitcoin mining business. Accordingly, mining consumes more and more energy. Obviously, our government is also aware of this
according to the requirements of the document, regulators require local governments to take measures related to electricity price, land use, tax and environmental protection to guide bitcoin miners to withdraw from the business. According to foreign media reports, regulatory authorities are mainly concerned about the money laundering and financial risks involved in the shutdown policy, but excessive power consumption is also a factor that can not be ignored. In principle, bitcoin mining consumes a lot of power because every time a new bitcoin is proced, it needs to solve the complex mathematical problems through the encryption process performed by a high-performance computer. Mining calculation process is used to verify bitcoin transactions in the blockchain to ensure security, but the disadvantage is that it consumes a lot of energy.
the power consumption of bitcoin mining machines is different according to different machines take Shenma 68T, the fastest mining machine in wet season, as an example. Suppose that the electricity charge is 0.22 per kilowatt hour in half a year in wet season and 0.34 per kilowatt hour in dry season, the wall power consumption of Shenma 68T's second-hand machine is 3264w, and the actual power consumption is 3500W, then the daily power consumption of a Shenma M20S 68T machine is 3.524 = 84 degrees, Annual power consumption 84 * 365 = 30660 degrees
according to the latest mining difficulty, a Shenma 68T machine can dig 0.00064836 BTC a day, and 10 machines can dig 2.366514 coins a year. The mining difficulty of the premise remains unchanged, but according to the current situation, it is assumed that the mining difficulty will increase by 30% from now to next June, and by 2.5% every month. It is estimated that 85% of the original coins should be g, that is, 2.012 coins. Ten machines of Shenma 68T can dig almost 2 coins a year
to sum up, the power consumption of ten Shenma 68T machines in a year is 306600 kwh, which can dig almost two coins
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the risk of mining machine
1. Hardware expenditure
< P > mining is actually a competition of performance and equipment. Some mining machines are composed of more such graphics card arrays. With tens or even hundreds of graphics cards, the hardware price and other costs are very high, There is considerable expenditure in miningin addition to the display card burning machines, some ASIC (application specific integrated circuit) professional mining machines are also put into the battlefield. ASIC is specially designed for hash operation, and the computing power is quite strong. Moreover, because their power consumption is far lower than that of the display card, they are easier to form scale, and the power cost is also lower. It is difficult for single chip display to compete with these mining machines, This kind of machine costs more
2. Currency security
the withdrawal of bitcoin requires hundreds of keys, and most people will record this long string of numbers on the computer, but the frequent problems such as hard disk damage will make the key permanently lost, which also leads to the loss of bitcoin
3. System risk
system risk is very common in bitcoin, and the most common one is bifurcation. Bifurcation will lead to a drop in currency price and a sharp drop in mining income. However, many cases show that the forking will benefit the miners, and the forked competitive currency also needs the miners' computing power to complete the minting and trading process. In order to win more miners, the competitive currency will provide more block rewards and handling charges to attract miners. Risk makes miners
take an ant s9-13.5t mining machine as an example, the power is 1.35kw
the power consumption of 24 hours a day is: 1.35kw * 24h = 32.4kw/day
according to your local electricity charge, assuming that the electricity charge is 0.5 yuan / kWh, 32.4 * 0.5 = 16.2 yuan / day
then an ant s9-13.5t mining machine can consume 32.4 kwh a day, The daily electricity charge is 16.2 yuan
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For example
a 4-sheet R9 280x graphics card miner. About 2.9m
power consumption:
the rated power of each graphics card is about 250W, and slightly overclocking is about 300W. Four graphics cards, 1200W
platform: motherboard, CPU, hard disk, etc., which add up to no more than 200W
display, mining machine is basically no display
the total power is about 1400W. 33.6 degrees a day
if the caption is only for ordinary household desktop computers, it is not easy to calculate, because the key is the power consumption of the graphics card. The power consumption of ordinary graphics card is about 150W. And then add the others according to 200W, a total of 350W. 4.2 degrees a day
if you want to talk about what is the investment proct with the highest return on investment, it must be bitcoin in recent years. The price of bitcoin has doubled dozens of times, which makes many people excited and devote themselves to mining. But as we all know, bitcoin mining is not simple. It requires a large number of computers with high configuration to work continuously, and the electricity consumption can also be imagined. Recently, Inner Mongolia asked to close all virtual currency mining projects before the end of April, and prohibited new virtual currency mining projects. Recently, the Inner Mongolia development and Reform Commission issued "several safeguard measures to ensure the completion of the" fourteenth five year plan "energy consumption double control target tasks (Draft)", which clearly proposed to comprehensively clean up and shut down the virtual currency mining projects, and withdraw them by the end of April 2021
