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Re:Bitcoin consumes 2nd highest electricity per capita by humaniania on Wednesday September 15, 2021 @05:15PM (#28544458)
Based on screenshots posted to an unverified twitter account? Why would this get upvotes?
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Re:Bitcoin consumes 2nd highest electricity per capita by mdoms on Wednesday September 15, 2021 @05:17PM (#28544479)
The source is in the very next tweet.

https://link.springer.com/epdf/10.1007/s12599-020-00656-x?sh...

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Re:Bitcoin consumes 2nd highest electricity per capita by jessaustin on Wednesday September 15, 2021 @06:31PM (#28545234)
From the conclusion to that link:

...we found that they do not pose a large threat to the climate, mainly because the energy consumption of PoW blockchains does not increase substantially when they process more transactions.

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