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06/13/2018 / By Ethan Huff
WASTE: Bitcoin to use half a percent of the world’s electric energy consumption by the end of this year
New research published in the journal Joule warns that the energy consumption needed to mine and process Bitcoin could end up being far higher than anyone ever imagined before the year’s end. The latest estimates suggest that the Bitcoin network may end up sucking down half a percent of the world’s total energy output by […]
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