<div dir="ltr">I find numbers like this thrown around without context mean nothing. How much of the worlds current energy is used on other financial transactions, running banks, credit cards, atms etc? Would anyone say that energy is wasted? </div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 29 January 2018 at 09:41, Adam Lane via kictanet <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke" target="_blank">kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">





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<i><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;letter-spacing:-.05pt">42.67 TWh: The annual energy consumption of Bitcoin and Ethereum combined</span></i><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;letter-spacing:-.05pt"><u></u><u></u></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.5pt;background:white">
<i><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;letter-spacing:-.05pt">0.19%: The percentage of the world’s electricity used by Bitcoin and Ethereum</span></i><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;letter-spacing:-.05pt"><u></u><u></u></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="background:white">
<i><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;letter-spacing:-.05pt">8.49: The number of U.S. households that could be powered for a full day with the same energy as single bitcoin transaction</span></i><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;letter-spacing:-.05pt"><u></u><u></u></span></li></ul>
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<b>On Behalf Of </b>Admin CampusCiti via kictanet<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Sunday, January 28, 2018 6:12 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Adam Lane <<a href="mailto:adam.lane@huawei.com" target="_blank">adam.lane@huawei.com</a>><br>
<b>Cc:</b> Admin CampusCiti <<a href="mailto:info@campusciti.com" target="_blank">info@campusciti.com</a>><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [kictanet] World's biggest ever digital currency 'theft'<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">That we are not safe anywhere from thieves? :-)<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">Seriously though one of the fundamental flaws of cryptocurrencies is that once you have been liberated from your cryptos you have no recourse. This is a design flaw that we are all hoping will be resolved. Sooner
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On 27 Jan 2018, at 8:53 PM, Victor Kapiyo via kictanet <<a href="mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke" target="_blank">kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke</a><wbr>> wrote:<u></u><u></u></p>
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 be the largest involving digital currency. Another Tokyo exchange, MtGox, collapsed in 2014 after admitting that $400m had been stolen from its network.</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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