Energy consumption of a Bitcoin (BTC) and VISA transaction as of May 1, 2023
the energy consumption of both Bitcoin (BTC) over time. It does so by estimating how much income miners possibly spend on electricity, as there is no institution that tracks how much energy the cryptocurrency actually consumes. This also applies to which countries mine the most Bitcoin, as this is estimated by cross referencing IP addresses.
The average energy consumption for one single Bitcoin transaction in 2023 could equal several hundreds of thousands of VISA card transactions. This according to a source that tries to estimate