Skull of Satoshi
Everything we do online takes energy.
A single google search? That takes 1080 Joules of energy*. Streaming an hour of Netflix? 288,000 Joules*. One Bitcoin transaction? A mindboggling 6,995,000,000 Joules.*
Bitcoin is an energy monster, burning a ton of fossil fuels – but it could disappear overnight if someone designed the right software update. Ethereum did it, why can’t Bitcoin?
But before that can happen, more people need to know about the problem – so Benjamin von Wong built a giant skull with laser eyes out of electronic waste to raise awareness.
Bitcoin uses more energy than many countries and consumes about twice as much electricity as Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Facebook, and Apple combined. In the last five years, Bitcoin energy usage has already increased by 100 times, and unless we fix the problem soon, it’ll grow into a massive problem by the time the artists nephew grows up to be a young man.
This giant skull was built using wood, recycled styrofoam, and over 300 pieces of Electronic Waste.
