What is the Carbon Footprint of a Bitcoin?
In this, the first of a three-part series, Danny Bradbury explores the impact the bitcoin network is having on the environment. Just how much carbon dioxide do we produce when we mine a bitcoin? It's becoming an increasingly important question. After all, it's great to disrupt an inefficient and sometimes corrupt incumbent economic system, but most of us would rather not do it at the expense of the planet. The bitcoin network is stuck in a circle that drives up its power usage. People tend to put more computing power on the network so that they can make more more bitcoins. The software....
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