Research Article

[Retracted] Mining Cryptocurrency-Based Security Using Renewable Energy as Source

Table 2

Comparison of previous studies of different cryptocurrencies.

ParametersSankaran [9]Krause [11]Xue [1]Eshani [13]de vries [14]Peng [12]

CryptocurrencyEthereumVertcoinMoneroRavencoinHaven protocolDogecoin
Mining algorithmKeccak-256VerthashRandomXKAWPOWCryptoNight POWScrypt
Power consumption104 TWh203 kWh193 kWh185 kWh156 kWh105 kWh
Reward per block2.19302 ETH12.5 vertcoin4.99 XMR5000 RVNs5.0907 XHVs10000 DOGE
Hash rate with respect to RTX 3080101 MH/s1.50 MH/s verthash4305.8 H/s8.74 TH/s46.62 MH2.2 GH/s
Required hash rate15,500 MH/s1,000,000 MH/s425.38 MH/s4.25 TH/s436 MH/s500 MH/s
Required mining hardwareGPUAverage-level GPU or CPUCPUGPUGPU or CPUGPU or CPU