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Re:Mozilla Foundation pausing cryptocurrency donations by sodality2 on Thursday January 06, 2022 @04:31PM (#29830522)
> How much CO2 pollution is each transaction responsible for, and how much would it cost to offset that CO2?

369.49 kgCO2eq. https://www.forbes.com/sites/philippsandner/2021/11/19/bitco...

> An average Bitcoin transaction has a size of 670 bytes on the Bitcoin blockchain, representing an estimated carbon footprint of 369.49 kgCO2eq. Given a price of USD 50 per metric tonne of CO2eq, the compensation of one average Bitcoin transaction costs USD 18.47.

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