More energy goes into crypto than is consumed by the entire Belgium. This is quite wrong, but you will never hear crypto proponents talk about this. In their minds, it is a worthy price to pay.

Cops used to watch a home's electric bill for indications that someone there was growing pot using grow lights. About half way into the advent of crypto those grow lights transitioned to LED. This surely had to result in several raids of crypto miners by narcotics cops in search of pot growers.