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Mining Bitcoins Uses More Electricity Than Argentina & We Wonder If It Will Ever Be Sustainable
MensXP | 01/03/2021 11:10 PM | Click to read full article
The energy used to harvest cryptocurrency has come to a point that it surpassed the energy consumption of some countries.
According to a study published by Cambridge University, the annual carbon footprint required to mine Bitcoin is higher than the annual consumption of countries like Ukraine and Argentina. Mining Bitcoin requires massive electrical infrastructure and complicated math algorithms in order to verify transactions. Miners often use a setup that involves multiple GPUs to process complicated algorithms.