Accompanying calculations report for On Bitcoin’s Energy Consumption: A Quantitative Approach to a Subjective Question by the Galaxy Digital Mining Team. The scripts containing the calculations are found in the Financial-Industry-Electricity-Balance-Scripts repo and are included as a submodule for convenience.
GDMT encourages external thoughts and contributions in the pursuit of the most accurate data possible.
Before contributing, please read CONTRIBUTING.md in the doc directory.
The compiled pdf is tracked using git lfs and is located in the out directory.
The following dependencies are required to compile this document:
- pdflatex
- latexmk
- make
- watchexec (optional)
To compile the latex files and generate a pdf, run:
$ make
To compile the latex files in watch mode for development purposes, run:
$ make watch
To clean the output directory:
$ make clean