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`March 2024`

02: A deep dive into cryptocurrency decentralization

`October 2023`

10: Powering AI could use as much electricity as a small country

`February 2023`

02: The Latest Hype in NFTs is a Climate Disaster: On-Chain Bitcoin NFTs

`December 2022`

10: New research highlights success of Ethereum’s merge

`July 2022`

23: Launching public API for energy and carbon footprint data

`February 2022`

25: Bitcoin less “green” than ever before
04: The Carbon Footprint of Polygon

`January 2022`

15: Dogecoin’s Growing Energy Problem

`November 2021`

22: How Bitcoin mining disproportionally impacts vulnerable communities

`September 2021`

17: Bitcoin’s growing e-waste problem

`July 2021`

02: How China’s Bitcoin mining ban affects energy consumption estimates

`June 2021`

`April 2021`

24: Amidst avid greenwashing, Xinjiang blackout exposes the horrid reality of Bitcoin mining (3)

`March 2021`

`August 2020`

04: Cryptocurrency energy demand is still underestimated

`July 2019`

25: Iran: the next great Bitcoin mining hub? (4)

`June 2019`

`March 2019`

23: Bitcoin’s inescapable, inconvenient truth (18)
14: New Academic Paper: Renewable Energy Will Not Solve Bitcoin’s Sustainability Problem (9)
02: Bitcoin Sustainability Report February 2019 (2)

`February 2019`

01: Bitcoin Sustainability Report January 2019 (1)

`January 2019`

01: Bitcoin Sustainability Report December 2018 (1)

`December 2018`

02: Bitcoin Sustainability Report November 2018

`November 2018`

12: Bitmain Launches New Bitcoin E-waste Cycle (1)
01: Bitcoin Sustainability Report October 2018 (2)

`July 2018`

06: Bitcoin Sustainability Report June 2018 (1)

`May 2018`

16: New Academic Paper: Bitcoin’s Growing Energy Problem (9)
01: Bitcoin Sustainability Report April 2018

`April 2018`

01: Bitcoin Sustainability Report March 2018

`March 2018`

01: Bitcoin Sustainability Report February 2018

`February 2018`

`January 2018`

03: Bitcoin Raises Inequality (1)
02: Bitcoin Sustainability Report December 2017

`December 2017`

20: Renewable Energy will not Save Bitcoin (4)
07: Bitcoin’s Carbon Footprint (4)
06: Bitcoin Sustainability Report November 2017 (1)

`November 2017`

14: Bitcoin’s Energy Consumption Surpasses Ireland (2)
03: Bitcoin Sustainability Report October 2017

`October 2017`

25: A Deep Dive in a Real-World Bitcoin Mine
01: Bitcoin Sustainability Report September 2017 (2)

`September 2017`

01: Bitcoin Sustainability Report August 2017 (1)

`May 2017`

27: Introducing the Ethereum Energy Consumption Index

`April 2017`

17: Bitcoin Electricity Consumption: An Economic Approach (11)

`February 2017`

09: Final release Bitcoin Energy Consumption Index (BECI) (1)

`November 2016`

26: Introducing the Bitcoin Energy Consumption Index

`March 2016`

04: Another Doomsday Scenario for Bitcoin

`February 2016`

26: How Limited Block Size May Centralize The Use Of Bitcoin

`August 2015`

18: Bitcoin’s Bigger Problem

`March 2015`

27: Reporting Bitcoin Scams (1751)

`September 2014`

26: Details and Shortcomings of NuBits (3)
22: Basics of Financial Smart Contracts

`August 2014`

25: Differences between Swaps, Forwards and Futures (7)
22: The Benefits of Futures Contracts
11: Introduction to Bitcoin Swaps

`July 2014`

28: How Auroracoin was set up to fail (1)
14: What is a Block Reward Halving?
07: Understanding Economies of Scale

`June 2014`

16: A 51% attack: the sum of all fears?

`April 2014`

12: Re: Auroracoin exposed (3)
06: Auroracoin exposed (1)

`March 2014`

03: On Auroracoin: Extreme Caution Advised (1)

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“AI will consume a lot of energy in the data centers, but the power of AI will ultimately unlock sustainability and efficiency across all industries.”

The typical justification for AI’s huge energy demand is a mix of wishful thinking and ignorance (ie ignoring Jevons’ Paradox).

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“AI will consume a lot of energy in the data centers, but the power of AI will ultimately unlock sustainability and efficiency across all industries.”

The typical justification for AI’s huge energy demand is a mix of wishful thinking and ignorance (ie ignoring Jevons’ Paradox).

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“AI will consume a lot of energy in the data centers, but the power of AI will ultimately unlock sustainability and efficiency across all industries.”

The typical justification for AI’s huge energy demand is a mix of wishful thinking and ignorance (ie ignoring Jevons’ Paradox).

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If transparency threatens your industry, then there might be something wrong with your industry.

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The tech giant does not consider it “meaningful” to provide AI-specific info, despite pointing to AI as the driver for their surging carbon emissions (50% increase compared to five years ago).

The battle for transparency may be over in crypto, but it has only just started for AI

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