{"id":16444182,"url":"https://github.com/douglascdev/bitcoin_e-waste","last_synced_at":"2026-05-04T18:37:26.863Z","repository":{"id":134791481,"uuid":"418644682","full_name":"douglascdev/bitcoin_e-waste","owner":"douglascdev","description":"Jupyter Notebook that calculates a rough estimate of how much e-waste is generated per transaction by the Bitcoin main network, based on the expected lifespan and hash rate of the ASIC Antminer S19J Pro.","archived":false,"fork":false,"pushed_at":"2021-10-18T22:52:39.000Z","size":6,"stargazers_count":1,"open_issues_count":0,"forks_count":0,"subscribers_count":1,"default_branch":"main","last_synced_at":"2025-01-08T20:22:28.239Z","etag":null,"topics":["bitcoin","cryptocurrency","jupyter-notebook","python3"],"latest_commit_sha":null,"homepage":"","language":"Jupyter Notebook","has_issues":true,"has_wiki":null,"has_pages":null,"mirror_url":null,"source_name":null,"license":"mit","status":null,"scm":"git","pull_requests_enabled":true,"icon_url":"https://github.com/douglascdev.png","metadata":{"files":{"readme":"README.md","changelog":null,"contributing":null,"funding":null,"license":"LICENSE","code_of_conduct":null,"threat_model":null,"audit":null,"citation":null,"codeowners":null,"security":null,"support":null,"governance":null,"roadmap":null,"authors":null,"dei":null,"publiccode":null,"codemeta":null}},"created_at":"2021-10-18T19:41:52.000Z","updated_at":"2021-10-18T22:52:42.000Z","dependencies_parsed_at":null,"dependency_job_id":"7c778a7c-ee59-4cb1-9eee-1e84d591f124","html_url":"https://github.com/douglascdev/bitcoin_e-waste","commit_stats":null,"previous_names":[],"tags_count":0,"template":false,"template_full_name":null,"repository_url":"https://repos.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/hosts/GitHub/repositories/douglascdev%2Fbitcoin_e-waste","tags_url":"https://repos.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/hosts/GitHub/repositories/douglascdev%2Fbitcoin_e-waste/tags","releases_url":"https://repos.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/hosts/GitHub/repositories/douglascdev%2Fbitcoin_e-waste/releases","manifests_url":"https://repos.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/hosts/GitHub/repositories/douglascdev%2Fbitcoin_e-waste/manifests","owner_url":"https://repos.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/hosts/GitHub/owners/douglascdev","download_url":"https://codeload.github.com/douglascdev/bitcoin_e-waste/tar.gz/refs/heads/main","host":{"name":"GitHub","url":"https://github.com","kind":"github","repositories_count":240807563,"owners_count":19860772,"icon_url":"https://github.com/github.png","version":null,"created_at":"2022-05-30T11:31:42.601Z","updated_at":"2022-07-04T15:15:14.044Z","host_url":"https://repos.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/hosts/GitHub","repositories_url":"https://repos.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/hosts/GitHub/repositories","repository_names_url":"https://repos.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/hosts/GitHub/repository_names","owners_url":"https://repos.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/hosts/GitHub/owners"}},"keywords":["bitcoin","cryptocurrency","jupyter-notebook","python3"],"created_at":"2024-10-11T09:23:32.565Z","updated_at":"2026-05-04T18:37:26.833Z","avatar_url":"https://github.com/douglascdev.png","language":"Jupyter Notebook","funding_links":[],"categories":[],"sub_categories":[],"readme":"# Bitcoin e-waste estimate\nCalculates a rough estimate of how much e-waste is generated per-transaction by the Bitcoin main network, based on the expected lifespan and hashrate of the ASIC Antminer S19J Pro.\n\n## Results\nResults while running at 18/10/2021\n\n * Hashrate = 143,388,851,802 GH/s\n * You'd need 1,433,888 S19J Pros to match the 143,388,851,802,000,000,000 H/s network hashrate\n * After 5 years of operation, 1,433,888 S19Js would have generated 20,934,764.8 kg of e-waste, 4,186,952.96 kg per year\n * Transactions in 24 hours = 268,899\n * The e-waste generated per transaction would be: 42.66g\n \n## Some issues\n\n * Average ASICs in actual use have many different specs, making the used hash rate, weight and lifespan inaccurate\n * The actual number of yearly transactions is approximated by getting the number of transactions today and multiplying by 365, but the actual number of transactions varies a lot on different days.\n * Calculation could be wrong, no one checked except for me\n","project_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/projects/github.com%2Fdouglascdev%2Fbitcoin_e-waste","html_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/projects/github.com%2Fdouglascdev%2Fbitcoin_e-waste","lists_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/projects/github.com%2Fdouglascdev%2Fbitcoin_e-waste/lists"}