Kripto Paraların Enerji Tüketiminin Yeşil Bilişim Kapsamında Deneysel Çalışma Yaklaşımıyla Karşılaştırmalı Analizi

Year 2024, Volume: 26 Issue: 3, 1229 - 1243, 27.09.2024

Ersin Çağlar , Mustafa Bal

https://doi.org/10.32709/akusosbil.1213732

Abstract

Bilişim teknolojilerinde meydana gelen büyük ilerlemeler ile birlikte birçok teknolojik gelişme hayatımıza girmektedir. Bu teknolojik gelişmeler hayatımızı doğrudan etkilemekte ve değiştirmektedir. İnsanların eğilimlerine bakıldığı zaman kripto para biriminin günümüzdeki en popüler teknoloji olduğu söylenebilir. Bir para birimi ve kriptoloji karışımı olan bu teknoloji, tüm dünyada artan bir ivme ile kullanılmaktadır. Dolayısıyla kripto para teknolojisi hala bankasız ödeme yapmak için kullanılmakta ve sanal para birimi olarak kabul edilmektedir. Kripto para biriminin sağladığı fırsatların yanı sıra, birkaç zorluğunun da olduğu belirtilmelidir. Çevre için en tehlikeli ve kritik durum, kripto para madenciliği için gerekli olan enerji tüketimidir. Blockchain, madencilik sürecinde kullanılan ve giderek daha fazla enerji tüketen bir teknolojidir. Bu kritik duruma göre, popüler kripto para birimlerinden biri olan Ethereum, enerji tüketimini analiz etmek için deneysel bir çalışmada kullanılmıştır. Bu deneyde, 30 Mart 2017 ile 30 Aralık 2019 tarihleri arasındaki verileri incelenmiştir. Elde edilen veriler, çevre için daha iyi olanı bulmak amacıyla bir başka popüler kripto para birimi olan bitcoin ile karşılaştırılmıştır. Bu çalışmada 196 GPU'dan gelen veriler incelenerek elektrik tüketimi ve kazancı analiz edilmiştir. Toplamda 3 farklı GPU markası kullanılmış ve sırasıyla ünitelerin markası, tüketilen güç ve testin yapıldığı ülkedeki elektrik birim fiyatı analiz edilmiştir.

Keywords

Kriptopara, Yeşil bilişim, enerji tüketimi, Ethereum, blok zinciri, kripto madenciliği, Cryptocurrency, green computing, energy consumption, ethereum, blockchain, crypto mining

Comparative Analysis of Energy Consumption of Cryptocurrencies with Experimental Study Approach in the Scope of Green Computing

Abstract

Many technologies enter our lives with the great advancement in information technology. These technological developments affect and change our life directly. According to affection of our life, cryptocurrency is the most popular technology. This technology, which is a relatively mixture of currency and cryptology, is used all over the world with increasing acceleration. So, cryptocurrency technology is still used to make payments without banks and is considered as virtual currency. Besides of this opportunity, cryptocurrency has few challenges. Most dangerous and critical challenge for environment is energy consumption in mining of cryptocurrency. Blockchain is the technology which is used in mining process and it consumes more and more energy. According to this critical challenge, Ethereum which is one of the popular cryptocurrencies, was used in an experimental study to analyze energy consumption. Experiment examined the data from Mar 30, 2017 to Dec 30, 2019. These data were compared with another popular cryptocurrency which is bitcoin in order to find the better one for environment. In this study, the data from 196 GPUs were examined and electricity consumption and gain were analyzed. Totally, 3 different types of GPU brands were used, and the brand of the units, the power consumed, and the electricity unit price in the country where it was tested were analyzed respectively.

Keywords

Cryptocurrency, green computing, energy consumption, ethereum, blockchain, crypto mining

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