Green Bitcoin: The impact and importance of energy use for PoW
To achieve the goal of a green Bitcoin network, crypto mining companies should push for production with less use of fossil fuels. While writing the world's most famous white paper, Satoshi Nakamoto defined the Bitcoin (BTC) mining process. It was established that the minting of new coins would take place through proof-of-work. To carry out this verification and to be able to mine the cryptocurrency, computers would need to solve complex mathematical calculations.In the beginning, there were not many miners. However, that changed before the first Bitcoin bull run. Mining competition....
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