Re:Bitcoin Mining Now Consuming More Electricity Than Many C...
by mrb on Wednesday November 22, 2017 @03:31PM
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Not everyone mine with coal. «A signifcant concentration [of Bitcoin mines] can be observed in the Sichuan province, where miners have struck deals with local hydroelectric power statons to access cheap electricity» p. 94 of https://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/fileadmin/user_upload/research/cen...
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Re:Bitcoin Mining Now Consuming More Electricity Than Many C...
by dbrgn on Thursday November 23, 2017 @04:30AM
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Also, coal in China is much cleaner than coal in the US, for example. https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/green/reports/2017/0...