Blockchain criticism - Energy, Carbon, Global Warming and Mining Bitcoin, Ether, minting NFTs
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Most NFTs are bought and sold with Ethereum, a cryptocurrency that guzzles up energy and pumps out a lot of greenhouse gas emissions. Artists are f...
Cryptocurrency takes a lot of power to keep things running. “ one Bitcoin transaction takes 1,544 kWh to complete, or the equivalent of approxim...
These days so much of my free time is booked with calls to explain to people outside the software industry why crypto assets are such a destructive...
I wrote about crypto and climate earlier this month and suggested that the narrative that crypto is bad for the climate is not as straightforward a...
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Bloomberg, 2017: “It may not matter whether bitcoin’s a bubble. The staggering energy costs associated with “mining” the digital currency could pr...
According to Digiconomist's Bitcoin Energy Consumption Index, as of Monday November 20th, 2017 Bitcoin's current estimated annual electricity consu...
Concerns about the cryptocurrency's energy use are overblown.
Eastern Washington had cheap power and tons of space. Then the suitcases of cash started arriving. “The attraction then, as now, was the Columbi...
Bitcoin is on track to consume 0.5 percent of the world's electricity by end of the year.
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