Question

Will Bitcoin's energy consumption remain below 80 TWh/yr in 2018?

Resolved :Ambiguous44%

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Total Forecasters48

Community Prediction44% (30% - 54%)

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community: 44%

Did this actually happen?Ambiguous

Authors:

jzima

Opened:

Aug 7, 2018

Closes:

Sep 3, 2018

Resolves:

Jan 2, 2019

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