Por: NBC News Tech September 27, 2022
LONDON — Bitcoin is struggling to go green, with the cryptocurrency making only slim gains in its usage of sustainable energy in the year to January, research by Cambridge university showed on Tuesday. Processing bitcoin transactions and “mining” new tokens is done by powerful computers, hooked up to a global network, that compete against others to solve complex mathematical puzzles. The process guzzles electricity, with its heavy reliance... + full article
Time USA Business September 29, 2022
Bitcoin mining’s is comparable to farming cattle or burning gasoline when taken as a proportion of market value, according to researchers at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque. Cryptocurrency mining is energy intensive because it requires highly specialized... + más
Bitcoin is as bad for the planet as beef, and it's getting worse | Newsweek
Is the bitcoin winter beginning to thaw out? | CNN
Newsweek USA World September 29, 2022
Mining bitcoin is as costly to the environment as energy-intensive beef production, and more so than gold mining.According to a paper published in the journal Scientific Reports, bitcoin mining and the mining of other cryptocurrencies uses huge amounts of energy, in fact, more... + más
Bitcoin Could Be as Bad for the Planet as Beef | Time
Forbes USA Business September 28, 2022
Wu Jihan, co-founder of Bitmain Technologies Ltd., speaks at the Shape the Future: Blockchain Global ... [+] Summit in Hong Kong, China, on Wednesday, Sept. 20, 2017. Bitcoin captivated the attention of financial markets this summer as the developer community embraced a new... + más
CNN USA Business September 28, 2022
A version of this story first appeared in CNN Business’ Before the Bell newsletter. Not a subscriber? You can sign up . You can listen to an audio version of the newsletter by clicking the same link. New York CNN Business — It’s been a cold, hard . But signs of a... + más
MarketWatch USA Business September 27, 2022
“Bitcoin is staging a remarkable recovery amid a mild reprieve elsewhere on Tuesday which will no doubt excite a crypto crowd after another rough period,” said Craig Erlam, an analyst at broker Oanda. “Turmoil elsewhere appears to have lifted Bitcoin which has largely... + más
Newsweek USA Tech September 24, 2022
Deep-sea mining has been approved for testing in the Pacific Ocean by the International Seabed Authority for the first time since the 1970s. The move has drawn widespread condemnation from environmental groups, with one Greenpeace campaigner saying the activity risks destroying... + más
The end of Ethereum mining could be a bonanza for GPU shoppers | Ars Technica
Deep sea mining, solution to tech world's mineral demand or potential ecological disaster? | ABC News
Ars Technica USA Tech September 19, 2022
Navigate Filter by topic Settings Front page layout Site theme Comment activity Sign up or login to join the discussions! Sign up to comment and more - Sep 16, 2022 5:45 pm UTC While these GPUs were liquidated following 2018 flooding in China, they provide a good visual for the... + más
Ethereum completes the “Merge,” which ends mining and cuts energy use by 99.95% | Ars Technica
EXPLAINER: Ethereum is ditching its 'miners.' Why? | Associated Press
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