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⚡️Bitcoin Uses More Electricity Than Switzerland Among other things, #Bitcoin has been criticized for price volatility, use in illegal transactions and thefts from exchanges. It has also proven highly controversial for the sheer amount of energy it requires. The University of Cambridge has released a new online tool that estimates the level of electricity the #CryptoCurrency network uses and compares it with other entities. It estimates that Bitcoin uses 61.76 terawatt-hours (TWh) of electricty per year, more than many countries and around 0.28 percent of worldwide electricity consumption. The Czech Republic 🇨🇿 consumes an estimated 62.34 TWh while Switzerland 🇨🇭 consumes 58.46 TWh annually by comparison. In fact, if Bitcoin was a country, it would be the 41st most-energy-demanding nation on earth. 🚀@PerspectiveIX via Statista.

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📉Instagram Engagement Rate is Facing a Massive Decrease An analysis of 1.4m posts from 3,637 brand accounts has revealed that overall engagement on #Instagram has seen a sharp decline since early May 2019. The maximum average engagement rate in April was 1.54%, but this has now dropped to about 0.9%, a decrease from earlier this year of 1.1%. This represents an 18% decline in average engagements (mostly likes) since the beginning of the year. But it’s not just brands that are suffering... Read more on Trust Insights. 🚀@PerspectiveIX

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📱Worldwide Mobile App Revenue Global app revenue reached $39 billion in the first half of 2019, that means an increase of 15% compared to the same period of 2018. Consumers spent an estimated $25.5 billion globally on #Apple’s #AppStore during the first half, an increase of 13.2% YoY from $22.6 billion in Q1 and Q2 of 2018. The amount generated by Apple’s platform was approximately 80% greater than #Google Play’s estimated gross revenue of $14.2 billion for the half. That was up 19.6% YoY from first half 2018’s total of $11.8 billion. 📖 Read more about Worldwide Mobile App Downloads. 🚀@PerspectiveIX via SensorTower.

📱Smartphone Dominance Following up on the poll above, although not producing the same results, here are some interesting stats from Pew Research Centre: #Smartphone users are now more likely to go online using their mobile phone than with some other type of device. For smartphone owners, their mobile devices now outpace more traditional means of accessing the web. 46% of them say when using the internet, they mostly do so on their phone. This represents a 12% increase from 2013 when 34% of these users said this. At the same time, the share of smartphone users who say a desktop, laptop or tablet computer is their primary device for going online has fallen from 53% in 2013 to 30% today. Roughly a quarter of smartphone users say they equally use a cellphone or a desktop, laptop or tablet computer when going online, up from 12% six years prior. 🚀@PerspectiveIX

👺Internet trolls may have won the battle, but they didn't win the war! According to Socialbakers, the majority of industries on #Facebook are getting more positive comments on posts than they are negative! 🚀@PerspectiveIX

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📱For App Makers: Apple's App Store vs Google Play Despite the fact that the installed base of #Android devices is significantly larger than it is for #iOS devices, app publishers still seem to find larger earnings potential on #Apple’s #AppStore compared to #GooglePlay. According to Sensor Tower’s estimates, the top 100 iOS app publishers made $84 million on average in Q1 2019, compared to $51 million for the most successful Android app makers. The difference between the two platforms is even more pronounced when excluding games publishers. The highest-grossing non-gaming app publishers for iOS outperformed the top 100 on Google’s Play Store by 232 percent. 🚀@PerspectiveIX via Statista.