August 26, 2020 09:24 pm -04

It takes an estimated seven nuclear plants to power our bitcoin mining

Turns out that plugging a bunch of computers into our electrical grid that do nothing but draw current and hash through algorithms has had some negative environmental impacts. Recent studies suggest that Bitcoin-related power consumption has reached...

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