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Tuesday, 12/05/2017 2:24:37 PM

Tuesday, December 05, 2017 2:24:37 PM

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This blows my mind...

"Today, each bitcoin transaction requires the same amount of energy used to power nine homes in the U.S. for one day. And miners are constantly installing more and faster computers. Already, the aggregate computing power of the bitcoin network is nearly 100,000 times larger than the world’s 500 fastest supercomputers combined."

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"In just a few months from now, at bitcoin’s current growth rate, the electricity demanded by the cryptocurrency network will start to outstrip what’s available, requiring new energy-generating plants."

https://grist.org/article/bitcoin-could-cost-us-our-clean-energy-future/
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