cryptocurrency nuclear power

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This script calculate the total electricity power needed by cryptocurrency miners (only miners, not including air conditionner), via the network hashrate of commons cryptocurrency and the power of hardware needed to mine.

On October 2020, cryptocurrency needs 35 nuclear reactors !

          Power  : cryptocurrency
    12058457534W : Bitcoin (12.06 GW)
     3901752371W : Monacoin (3.90 GW)
     2259830274W : Zcash (2.26 GW)
     1159370668W : Ethereum (1.16 GW)
     1066431941W : Decred (1.07 GW)
      591213900W : Dogecoin (591.21 MW)
      487516317W : GroestlCoin (487.52 MW)
      441576770W : BitcoinDiamond (441.58 MW)
      402455408W : Litecoin (402.46 MW)
      336659264W : Dash (336.66 MW)
      306769480W : Monero (306.77 MW)
      249246128W : BitcoinCashABC (249.25 MW)
      196559189W : Horizen (196.56 MW)
      150185010W : BitcoinSV (150.19 MW)
      117720650W : Viacoin (117.72 MW)
...

Total used power for all listed cryptocurrency: 24.48 GW

        = 0.92 % of world electricity
        = 35.26 nuclear reactors of 900MW
        = 7.83% of world nuclear reactors

History

12 may 2018 : 7.78 GW
12 jun 2018 : 8.46 GW
18 august 2018 : 9.33 GW
27 january 2019 : 10.24 GW = 14.75 nuclear reactors
12 august 2019 : 16.13 GW = 23.2 nuclear reactors
23 october 2020 : 24.48 GW = 35.26 nuclear reactors

Project Name	Stars	Repos Using This	Packages Using This	Most Recent Commit	Total Releases	Latest Release	Open Issues	License	Language
Xmrig	7,451			a day ago	2	May 08, 2018	453	gpl-3.0	C
RandomX, KawPow, CryptoNight and GhostRider unified CPU/GPU miner and RandomX benchmark
Bcoin	2,813	366	87	16 days ago	57	July 13, 2018	194	other	JavaScript
Javascript bitcoin library for node.js and browsers
Simplecoin	1,739			8 months ago			31	mit	Python
Just a really simple, insecure and incomplete implementation of a blockchain for a cryptocurrency made in Python as educational material. In other words, a simple Bitcoin clone.
Php Mpos	1,506			4 years ago			6	apache-2.0	PHP
MPOS stands for Mining Portal Open Source. Issue tracker is now closed since it's not maintained anymore.
Aeternity	1,030			2 days ago			261	isc	Erlang
æternity blockchain - scalable blockchain for the people - smart contracts, state channels, names, tokens
Node Open Mining Portal	967			13 days ago			348	gpl-2.0	JavaScript
A scalable all-in-one easy to setup cryptocurrency mining pool and portal written entirely in Node.js.
Duino Coin	936			12 days ago			5	mit	Python
ᕲ Duino-Coin is a coin that can be mined with almost everything, including Arduino boards.
Nicehashminer Archived	801			4 years ago			516		C#
NiceHash easy to use CPU&GPU Miner
Coiniumserv	678			2 years ago			322	other	C#
Next-gen crypto currency mining pool software
Minerblock	626			15 days ago			13	mit	JavaScript
An efficient browser extension to block browser-based cryptocurrency miners all over the web.

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