Category: Sustainability

After a continuous drop in Bitcoin’s energy consumption for several months, January sadly put an end to this trend.

It’s no secret that a good part of the Bitcoin community hates Digiconomist for contributing to exposing the digital currency’s extreme environmental impact.

With 2018 behind us, we can finally get a complete overview of the environmental disaster that unfolded in Bitcoin last year.

The Bitcoin price crashed again in November, leading up to the first significant drop in Bitcoin’s energy consumpion ever recorded.

We’ve barely had time to process the latest studies on the carbon footprint of Bitcoin mining, or Bitmain (the largest manufacturer of Bitcoin mining machines) is already giving us a reason to worry about another side effect of producing new coins.