How bitcoin is reviving fossil fuel plants – video - The Guardian
6/16/2022 12:00:00 AM2 years 10 months ago
by Ryan Baxter, Joseph Pierce, Ali Assaf, Josh Toussaint-Strauss
by Ryan Baxter, Joseph Pierce, Ali Assaf, Josh Toussaint-Strauss
Josh Toussaint-Strauss explores how dying fossil fuel plants have been been revived in the name of cryptocurrency
Bitcoin requires vast amounts of electricity to facilitate its transactions around the globe. More than twice the energy usage per year of Apple, Facebook, Google, Microsoft and Amazon combined. This… [+581 chars]
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