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That’s next to having the same carbon footprint as a per passenger carbon footprint of a flight from London to New York and electronic waste equivalent to throwing away two iPhones.

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That’s next to having the same carbon footprint as a per passenger carbon footprint of a flight from London to New York and electronic waste equivalent to throwing away two iPhones.

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Every Bitcoin transaction uses, on average, enough water to fill "a back yard swimming pool" - BBC reporting on my latest study regarding BTC’s water footprint https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-67564205
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2 Dec 1730935072369365209

Bitcoiners intend to compensate for the insane water consumption of Bitcoin mining by crying harder

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2 Dec 1730935072369365209

Bitcoiners intend to compensate for the insane water consumption of Bitcoin mining by crying harder

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1 Dec 1730544502618620128

Are you mad? Because if anyone has the right to be it’s pretty much everyone else that ends up paying the price for the resources wasted in Bitcoin’s proof-of-useless-work. Go spend your energy on fixing the problem instead of making flawed excuses; a solution is available…

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Ah yes, more than ever the positive externalities of Bitcoin mining are abundantly clear…

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