{"id":21477,"date":"2024-05-28T20:30:55","date_gmt":"2024-05-28T17:30:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coinengineer.io\/?p=21477"},"modified":"2024-05-28T21:12:27","modified_gmt":"2024-05-28T18:12:27","slug":"us-bitcoin-miners-spend-2-7-billion-on-power-in-early-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coinengineer.net\/blog\/us-bitcoin-miners-spend-2-7-billion-on-power-in-early-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"US Bitcoin Miners Spend $2.7 Billion on Power in Early 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over the first few months of 2024, United States Bitcoin miners paid $2.7 billion on power.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Paul Hoffman,<\/strong> analyst at Best Brokers, claimed that <em>&#8220;since the start of 2024, Bitcoin mining in the U.S. has consumed an enormous 20,822.62 GWh of electric power.&#8221;<\/em> <em>&#8220;At the average commercial electricity rate of $0.1281 per kWh as of February, this amounts to an expenditure of $2,667,318,196.47.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<h2>Energy Consumption and Costs<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Hoffman<\/strong> said further, <em>&#8220;This amount of energy could charge every electric vehicle in the U.S. 87.52 times or power 1,983,107 households for a year, which is 1.51% of all U.S. households.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>With U.S. miners accounting for 44,102 <strong>BTC<\/strong>, or 37.84% of global output, 116,550 bitcoins, valued at $8.2 billion, have been mined worldwide so far. Before the halving event in April, the power required to mine one bitcoin was 407,059.01 kilowatt-hour (kWh), resulting in a cost of approximately $52,144.26. Since then, 1 BTC has required 862,635.55 kWh of electricity, which, at current commercial prices, amounts to approximately $110,503.61.<\/p>\n<p>Although <a href=\"https:\/\/coinengineer.net\/blog\/mt-gox-transferred7-billion-worth-of-bitcoin\/\">Bitcoin<\/a> mining consumes a lot of energy, for now it is the only major worldwide sector driven mostly by renewable energy. With sustainable mining growing by 3.6% overall by 2023, the Bitcoin ESG Forecast showed in January that sustainable energy utilization in Bitcoin mining has surged to a fresh all-time high of 54.5%.<\/p>\n<p>Following China&#8217;s mining ban and the effective ban in Kazakhstan, miners have mostly migrated to sustainable off-grid areas or greener grids in North America. 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