'Bitcoin is not an energy-consuming monster; it is humanity's most effective energy alchemy.'
While everyone is criticizing Bitcoin as a 'power monster', NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang dropped a bombshell on stage:
'Before you criticize Bitcoin for wasting electricity, think about how much energy gold, banks, YouTube, and even Christmas lights consume.'
Bitcoin has done something unprecedented—
It transforms 'energy that would have been wasted' into a scarce asset that can be instantly transmitted across the internet to the other side of the Earth.'
The venue was silent.
Then he delivered a critical remark:
"If one day we really encounter aliens, I bet their interstellar currency must also be settled using something similar to Proof of Work. Because this is the only way for a cosmic-level civilization to transfer value without trusting a third party, relying solely on energy + mathematics."
This is not science fiction; it is the reality of 2025.
Turning 'wasted' electricity into Bitcoin, is this modern alchemy?
Jensen Huang said that billions of kilowatt-hours of electricity are wasted every day globally:
• Texas has excess wind power at night, and no one uses it, so it has to be shut down.
• The hydroelectric power station in Quebec, Canada, has so much electricity in winter that it has to be dumped into the river.
• The oil fields in the Middle East burn hundreds of millions of cubic meters of associated natural gas every day, the torch burns brighter than the Olympic flame.
• The geothermal power plant in Iceland is boiling 24 hours a day but can't find buyers.
Then Bitcoin miners appeared.
They are like a group of energy scavengers, stuffing this 'unwanted electricity' into NVIDIA GPUs.
Months later, the output is not hot air and noise, but clean, universally accepted, unconfiscatable Bitcoins.
Jensen Huang calls this "humanity's first time converting energy directly into digital scarcity."
It's a hundred times more environmentally friendly than mining gold—because mining gold leaves behind a toxic lake, while mining Bitcoin leaves only a pile of heat (which can be used to heat houses).
The value created per joule is higher than that of gold, banks, and Google.
Jensen Huang loves to ask one question:
"Do you know how much electricity it takes to maintain the global gold industry (mining, transportation, refining, insurance, vaults) for a year? Do you know how much electricity the global banking system (branches, air conditioning, ATMs, servers, armed transport) consumes in a year? Do you know how much electricity all the Christmas lights in the United States burn just for the holiday season?"
Then he revealed the data:
The Bitcoin network currently consumes energy to generate $1 of economic value (market cap + transaction fees),
It is already lower than the cost of extracting $1 worth of gold.
It's even lower than maintaining a bank settlement system of the same scale.
It even consumes less electricity than YouTube does for 1 hour of 4K video playback.
"We are just taking the same electricity, converting it from rendering (Toy Story) Pixar animations, to protecting a $2 trillion decentralized network. The economic value generated per joule is hundreds of times higher."
Jensen Huang said with a smile.
Conclusion: Bitcoin is not 'consuming' energy, but 'storing' energy.
Jensen Huang's last words pinned the environmentalists in the audience to their seats:
"Energy does not disappear into thin air; it only changes form. In the past, we converted energy into waste heat, toxic slag, paper money, reinforced concrete. Now, for the first time, we have learned to convert energy into a pure form of digital scarcity that can be transmitted from Iceland to Singapore in 10 minutes, which cannot be taken away or printed more of."
"This is not waste; this is the craziest and most beautiful upgrade in human energy history."
The lecture ended, and the applause was thunderous.
And the internet exploded.
Some people say: Jensen Huang's words are worth one Bitcoin.
Some people say: He is not just selling graphics cards; he is finding the next millennium's connection between energy and value for the entire civilization.
Do you still think Bitcoin is wasting electricity?
Or has Jensen Huang secretly rewritten your definition of 'energy'?
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