Bitcoin network’s carbon emission jumped 17% after China ban: Report - Cointelegraph

Crypto pundits predicted that the migration of miners out of China would make BTC mining more decentralized as well as greener, but the new Joule report shows otherwise.

Bitcoin networks proof-of-work mining consensus has been a topic of environmental, social and governance debates for a long time, and a new study may only add to the growing controversy around Bitcoi… [+2284 chars]

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