The first peer-reviewed study of bitcoin’s energy consumption confirms our fears: Bitcoin’s energy consumption is growing at 20% *per month* and is effectively erasing decades of progress on renewable energy.https://grist.org/article/bitcoins-energy-use-got-studied-and-you-libertarian-nerds-look-even-worse-than-usual/ …
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Replying to @EricHolthaus
Bitcoin is incentivizing renewable energy research and growth at an unprecedented pace. It's the first time in history that the production and consumption of electricity can be geographically separated.
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Replying to @AriDavidPaul @EricHolthaus
What a BS mumbojumbo Ari. Bitcoin is old, slow, expensive, and now adding to climatechange with his 7 trx per second for 66.1 TWh. Dont try to hide the black side of your steamtrain coin with expensive language.pic.twitter.com/RgkP6BViVJ
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Will 🗣️ 🌐 Retweeted Will 🗣️ 🌐
This is a bad study of bitcoin electricity usage. It is propogating bad information and confusion.https://twitter.com/FluidFluxation/status/996073778990940160?s=19 …
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