I wonder if all that mining is representing a significant blip on energy usage by now.
Uhh that doesn't look good
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/ywbbpm/bitcoin-mining-electricity-consumption-ethereum-energy-climate-change
One Bitcoin Transaction Now Uses as Much Energy as Your House in a Week
Humans, always finding new interesting ways to waste more energy. True entropists. (should be a word)