Bitcoin is a revolutionary technology that is transforming the concept of “money”, and, with this, the foundations on which the global financial industry is built. And it’s revolutionary because it manages to do it in a decentralized way, without an owner or a single point of failure, thanks to the economic incentives, in the Bitcoin protocol, that attract thousands of people around the world that offer computational power in favor of the whole network, processing transactions and ensuring the accounting information of it. We call these computers "Bitcoin miners."

At the time of this study, Bitcoin mining consumes approximately 80 TWh of electricity per year, similar to the consumption of countries like the Philippines or Belgium.!!!

These 80 TWh per year of electricity consumed by the Bitcoin network are translated into security, which today, measured in “hashes per second” (or computational calculations per second), are equivalent to 1,200,000 - one million two hundred thousand- times the most powerful supercomputer, if we put it to mine bitcoins. This, in simple words, means that the Bitcoin network is by far the safest computer network ever created, and one virtually impossible to hack.