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Re:Bitcoin emissions alone could push global warming above 2... by Cypher on Thursday November 01, 2018 @02:57AM (#18351850)
It's a 3 page document that makes a number of false assumptions. They extrapolate bitcoin to having 300 billion transactions and means no lightening or L2 solution and the block size would be 3gigs. Nor do they even factor in the halving. Wasn't even researched properly, just utter nonsense for the papers.

And Joe Rogan was showing how easy it is to publish fake papers in journals. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZZNvT1vaJg

here is the paper by the way behind a shitty paywall. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-018-0321-8

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Re:Bitcoin emissions alone could push global warming above 2... by laichzeit0 on Thursday November 01, 2018 @03:09AM (#18351876)
I thought Nature was one of the Big Journals that only publish high impact things. How does stuff like this slip in then?
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Re:Bitcoin emissions alone could push global warming above 2... by anovikov on Thursday November 01, 2018 @03:07AM (#18351872)
That sounds like bullshit of all bullshits!
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Re:Bitcoin emissions alone could push global warming above 2... by triodan on Thursday November 01, 2018 @03:12AM (#18351890)
> They extrapolate bitcoin to having 300 billion transactions

https://xkcd.com/605/

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