Bitcoins now suck up as much energy as Las Vegas

Grist
By Zoya TeirsteinJun 14, 2019, 4:29 pm694 ptsHot
Bitcoin has been hailed as the future of cyber currency. A very drunk man in a bar once tried to explain to me what exactly is so special about it but I’m not sure he really understood how it works, either. At any rate, the cryptocurrency-that-must-not-be-explained has taken the globe by storm, and…

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