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  • hank December 2017
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How Bitcoin Consumes More Energy than 159 Individual Countries

LewisBraham
edited December 2017 in Off-Topic
bigthink.com/strange-maps/bitcoin-consumes-more-energy-than-159-individual-countries

It's also a waste of computing power that could be used instead to benefit humanity such as producing more effective medicines:

https://gizmodo.com/the-worlds-most-powerful-computer-network-is-being-was-504503726

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  • TedTed
    @Lewis: Don't worry, a year from now will be saying what happened to that Bit currency that was the rage for a short time in 2017 ?
    Regards,
    Ted
  • hank
    Maybe invest in coal?
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