Research Article
[Retracted] Mining Cryptocurrency-Based Security Using Renewable Energy as Source
Table 1
Annual energy consumption of top 3 cryptocurrencies [
30].
| Cryptocurrency | Algorithm | Energy consumption (TWh) | Carbon footprint (Mt CO2) |
| Bitcoin | SHA-256 | 204.50 | 97.14 | Ethereum | Ethash | 109.33 | 51.93 | Dogecoin | Scrypt | 6.42 | 3.05 |
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