Technology: UNM Researchers Find Bitcoin Mining Is Environmentally Unsustainable

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Sep 29, 2022, 4:25 pm167 pts
Taken as a share of the market price, the climate change impacts of mining the digital cryptocurrency Bitcoin is more comparable to the impacts of extracting and refining crude oil than mining gold, according to an analysis published in Scientific Reports by researchers at The University of New Mexico.

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