Cambridge University's Bitcoin Mining Index Gets an Upgrade for Precise Power Consumption Analysis – Here's the Latest
The Bitcoin Electricity Consumption Index (CBECI), developed by researchers at Cambridge University’s Centre for Alternative Finance (CCAF), has been upgraded to reveal new information about Bitcoin mining’s global energ...
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Following the upgrade, the new estimate of all global energy use by Bitcoin miners stands at 89.0 terawatt-hours (TWh), significantly lower than the 104 TWh estimated by the previous version of the model....
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