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Every Bitcoin payment 'uses a swimming pool of water'
(www.bbc.com)
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this post was submitted on 30 Nov 2023
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Globally in 2018 there are 370 billion credit card transactions, divided by 6 million for swimming pool comes to 62,000 swimming pools worth of water for global credit card transactions.
Or 170 swimming pools a day
Or seven swimming pools an hour.
Bitcoin is targeting 10 minutes per block on average, so that's 144 blocks per day or six swimming pools per hour.
I don't really have a point with this math, just that if an article is going to make a colorful analogy, they should take it all the way so we can have comparables
https://www.statista.com/statistics/881541/bitcoin-energy-consumption-transaction-comparison-visa/
Hey fair enough. You don't have to down vote me because I'm extending the metaphor of your article.
Thanks for posting data that is using the same units.