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Bitcoin rise could leave carbon footprint the size of London’s – The Guardian
Research estimates cryptocurrency will consume as much energy as all datacentres globally
The surge in bitcoins price since the start of 2021 could result in the cryptocurrency consuming as much energy as all the data centres in the world with an associated carbon footprint the same as that of London, according to research..
Alex de Vries, a Dutch economist, is the author of the research paper published in the journal Joule. De Vries created the Bitcoin Energy Consumption Index , one of the first systematic attempts to estimate the energy use of the bitcoin network, and by late 2017…
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