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That’s the suggestion by Alex de Vries, Economist and Data Scientist who spoke to ELN about his new research on the mountains of electronic waste produced by cryptocurrency mining
Elon Musk said the company will start accepting Bitcoin when miners will start to use a reasonable amount of clean energy in their operations
Bury-based crypto mining company is running its computers using cow manure and other renewable energies
West Midlands Police has uncovered a cryptocurrency ‘mine’ while searching for drugs in an industrial unit
However, the EV and tech giant said it intends to use the cryptocurrency for transactions as soon as mining transitions to more sustainable energy
Financial services company Square says bitcoin miners can actually complement clean energy production and storage technologies, allowing electricity grids to deploy ‘substantially more renewable energy’
By 2024, Chinese bitcoin mining could generate a carbon output that could exceed the total annual greenhouse gas emissions of the Czech Republic and Qatar
New research from the University of Cambridge suggests the cryptocurrency network consumes energy at a rate of around 50TWh a year
Researchers concluded the cryptocurrency generates around 22 million tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions each year
The Big Zero report
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