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For past couple of months, there has been an increased focus on bitcoin’s electricity usage. Recent examples are — <a href="https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/ywbbpm/bitcoin-mining-electricity-consumption-ethereum-energy-climate-change" target="_blank">Vice article</a>, <a href="https://spectrum.ieee.org/energy/policy/the-ridiculous-amount-of-energy-it-takes-to-run-bitcoin" target="_blank">IEEE</a>, and <a href="https://hackernoon.com/the-bitcoin-vs-visa-electricity-consumption-fallacy-8cf194987a50" target="_blank">The Bitcoin vs Visa Electricity Consumption Fallacy</a>.