{"id":40934,"date":"2023-04-27T09:43:56","date_gmt":"2023-04-27T06:43:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/saudishopper.com.sa\/en\/?p=40934"},"modified":"2026-03-28T03:08:29","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T00:08:29","slug":"up-to-3000-tons-of-co2-per-year-an-environmental-impact-of-crypto-mining-protection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/saudishopper.com.sa\/en\/up-to-3000-tons-of-co2-per-year-an-environmental-impact-of-crypto-mining-protection\/","title":{"rendered":"Up to 3,000 tons of CO2 per year: an environmental impact of crypto mining protection"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In the wake of Earth Day 2023, Kaspersky reveals new data on the environmental impact of blocking crypto miners. Kaspersky solutions prevented more than 200 million attempts at illegal cryptomining, and in the process saved the possible energy equivalent of up to 3,000 tons of Co2 emissions into the atmosphere in 2022.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Crypto mining is an energy-consuming business. For example, the electricity consumption for bitcoin production\u00a0is equal to<\/a>\u00a0the annual energy consumption of Sweden. The growing energy costs of cryptocurrency production contribute to the growing popularity of malicious mining or cryptojacking – threats that infiltrate a user\u2019s device to secretly\u00a0mine<\/a>\u00a0cryptocurrency. The victim might not even be aware that someone is using their device\u2019s processing resources for cryptocurrency mining, as the malware runs in hidden mode.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

High power consumed during cryptojacking can not only lead to a decrease in device performance, but also has negative consequences for the environment. In 2019, Kaspersky developed and\u00a0introduced<\/a>\u00a0a special methodology that allows consumers and business to assess the impact of illegal mining on the environment. In the process, we discovered the amount of energy consumed in mining can reach\u00a01.67 GWh<\/a>\u00a0– enough comparable annual energy to power a city or charge 15,000 electric cars. According to the new statistics, the trend of growing energy consumption by crypto mining remains.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2022, Kaspersky products prevented 202,540,954 attempts by hijackers to use another device for crypto mining. To calculate the minimum amount of energy saved by blocking malicious miners we used the formula from the 2019 study shown below. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to the calculations, this value is 4.28 \u00b1 2.67 GWh. If converted into carbon dioxide emissions at the global average based on the estimate of the\u00a0Independent Energy Think Tank Ember<\/a>, between 700 to 3,000 tons of greenhouse gas (CO2) emitted into the atmosphere emissions were prevented.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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