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misk@sopuli.xyz to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago

Bitcoin miners win legal battle to keep mum about energy use [US]

www.theverge.com

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Bitcoin miners win legal battle to keep mum about energy use [US]

www.theverge.com

misk@sopuli.xyz to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago
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Bitcoin mines are energy-hungry data farms.
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    I want to agree with you, but crypto mining is orders of magnitude more energy than the worst lazy energy leaks.

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      Not that I don’t believe you, but do you have a source for that?

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        There were sources in the article that says that Bitcoin mining basically wasted a countries worth of resources, increasing our overall electric bills.

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          Yeah I see that now. Thanks for pointing it out. It did take a minute to go through and find the actual sources as The Verge likes to source themselves. So I’ll put the two (at least I think) sources.
          This source shows where most of the mining is taking place.

          This is the second source that shows how much Energy is being consumed.

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