ADA and its Low Energy Consumption: Sustainability of Cardano
May 13, 2021 by NOWPayments.io
Cardano is a great payment method. Its stated aim is “to bring about positive global change”, and that is what Mass Adoption is all about!
Launched in 2015 by a Hong Kong company named IOHK, it’s an open-source, decentralized project that uses proof-of-stake transaction validation. Compared to Bitcoin’s 7 transactions a second, Cardano can achieve 1000 per second.
ADA as payment
The payment benefits of ADA are plenty, besides its speed and scalability, and it has a great many of use cases: payments, donations, payouts, digital identity, decentralized finance, property rights, legal contracts and more.
But let’s focus on this topical factor: ADA is much more energy-efficient than Bitcoin. According to this reddit post, Cardano may be 37,500 times more energy-efficient than Bitcoin. Think about it! ADA is even the third when it comes to being least “energy-hungry”.
Cardano and Environment: Cardano Sustainability
You cannot mine Cardano, hence the miniscule energy use. ADA can be staked instead of that. You can accept Cardano payments and keep them in a Cardano wallet, receiving a certain percentage for that. This is what “Proof of Stake” is and that is what makes Cardano sustainable.
How it works
So, like already mentioned above, Cardano uses a ‘Proof of Stake’ consensus mechanism. To join the network, participants buy tokens. Thus, an enormous amount of energy is saved. According to the founder of Cardano, the network uses only 6 GWh of power, which aims to provide a sustainable eco-system.
Conclusion
Cardano aims to fix a lot of challenges of the modern world, and ADA being a sustainable payment method is an inspiring opportunity for businesses and more, with a lot of use cases it got.
Continue reading in the NOWPayments blog — Cardano & Environment!
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