The Regulations That Could Help Reduce Bitcoin’s Carbon Footprint

Publikováno: 10.3.2021

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The price of bitcoin has hit record prices this month, and that’s bad news for the climate. As the price of the currency shoots up, so does the energy consumption as people are incentivized to mine more bitcoin. And a new paper published Wednesday in the journal Joule estimates that by the end of the year, bitcoin…