The EOS platform, which aims to facilitate the horizontal and vertical scaling of decentralized applications, consumes significantly less energy than the proof-of-work (PoW) based Bitcoin (BTC) and Ethereum (ETH) blockchain networks. The Bitcoin network consumes approximately 73.1 TWh of power annually - which is about as much energy consumed by the South American country of Argentina. EOS's delegated proof-of-stake (DPoS) consensus mechanism and protocol for validating blocks requires far less energy to function as it does not rely on energy-intensive mining.
