Ethereum Emissions: A Bottom-up Estimate. (arXiv:2112.01238v3 [cs.CY] UPDATED)

The Ethereum ecosystem was maintained by a distributed global network of
computers that required massive amounts of computational power. Previous work
on estimating the energy use and emissions of the Ethereum network has relied
on top-down economic analysis and rough estimates of hardware efficiency and
emissions factors. In this work we provide a bottom-up analysis that works from
hashrate to an energy usage estimate, and from mining locations to an emissions
factor estimate, and combines these for an overall emissions …

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