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Now Bitcoin is deemed bad for the environment: United Nations says mining cryptocurrency pumps out same amount of carbon as 40BILLION pounds of coal each year
2023-10-26
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] That whole distributed registration and validation thing makes payoffs difficult.
It has always been known that Bitcoin thingies use horrendous amounts of electricity, and are therefore bad for the environment — the UN is being disingenuous here.

Posted by:Skidmark

#3  Amount of Labor = Value (Karl Marx)?
Posted by: Grom the Reflective   2023-10-26 04:58  

#2  Oddly, 40 billions pounds of coal is the exact amount needed to generate all those electricity that bitcoin miners consume!
Posted by: Seeking Cure For Ignorance   2023-10-26 04:51  

#1  You UN guys mean carbon 'dioxide', right? You realize it's not a pollutant, don't you? Or do you just don't give a damn?
Posted by: Raj   2023-10-26 01:10  

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