Issuance
As many coins as the energy the country consumes
The cap of a national WattCoin equals the country’s total final energy consumption in the previous year — electricity, gas, fuels, coal, heat, in MWh. Enter the consumption to get the cap.
1 TWh = 1 million MWh = 1 million coins. The cap is a limit, not a plan: only coins someone bought are in circulation.
Federation
All WattCoins together ≤ the world’s energy
- Price and volume — from one country. Each WattCoin takes both the kWh price and the energy consumption of its own country, so no kilowatt-hour is counted twice.
- Open sources. The national energy balance for a country; IEA, World Energy Outlook for the world.
How a coin is born
Nobody prints coins — they are bought
A coin appears when it is bought and leaves circulation when sold back to the system. Try it.
- The buyer pays the formula price.
- The system issues the coin — within the cap.
- The money goes to the reserve: 90 % bonds, 10 % USDT.
- On sale the coin returns and the seller is paid from the reserve.
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Calculated on demonstration parameters: demo WattCoin EU, cap 11.17 bn coins, 10 % in circulation, energy price $0.1616 per kWh.
Comparison
Why the cap is not fixed
21 million coins forever
the country’s energy consumption, updated yearly
early participants
no one in particular
none
the cap grows with energy
mining that burns energy
purchase with money that becomes the reserve
Once a year
The yearly cap update
The cap is updated once a year from a single data source.
The cap never falls below the coins already in circulation.
A cap change moves the rate by hundredths of a percent.