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Op Ed: Bitcoin’s Energy Consumption Is Neither Frivolous Nor Excessive
As the CEO of Hut 8, one of North America’s largest cryptocurrency miners and the world’s largest publicly traded cryptocurrency miner, I’m often asked questions about energy consumption in the mining of cryptocurrency. дальше »
2018-11-1 23:35 | |
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GenerEOS Calculates That EOS Is 66,000 Times More Energy Efficient Than Bitcoin
In a new blog post, Sydney block producer candidate GenerEOS talked about energy consumption comparisons of the EOS blockchain with the two most prominent blockchain networks – Bitcoin and Ethereum. дальше »
2018-10-29 20:29 | |
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We are thinking about Bitcoin’s energy usage in all the wrong ways
Global warming is certainly one of the humanity’s greatest challenges. For decades, public opinion has held heavily industrialized nations accountable for the damage done to our planet. In the quest to preserve Earth, it has become en vogue to critique Bitcoin mining for its high energy use and potentially harmful impact on the environment. дальше »
2018-8-28 18:53 | |
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Are We Using the Wrong Metric to Measure Bitcoin’s Energy Consumption?
Dr. Katrina Kelly, a researcher in clean energy technology, recently published an article on The Conversation questioning the overwhelming concern around Bitcoin’s growing energy use. While Kelly agreed that Bitcoin consumes a lot of energy, she noted that it is possible to increase electricity production while ensuring that there is minimal impact on the environment. дальше »
2018-8-25 19:55 | |
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Research: Bitcoin Mining Operations Use Far Less Energy Than Banks
At a time when bitcoin antagonists have not stopped criticizing the world’s flagship digital currency for its high power consumption, The Conversation, a nonprofit academic news source has published a report on August 20, 2018. дальше »
2018-8-22 16:00 | |
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Bitcoin Energy Consumption Could Drive Innovation, Says Research Associate
Bitcoin (BTC)–By now, most within and outside of the industry of cryptocurrency are familiar with the narrative surrounding Bitcoin energy usage. The argument goes that as Bitcoin becomes a more popular choice in terms of digital currency, the increase of miners looking to capitalize on transaction fees and reward payouts will increase, thereby also raising […] The post Bitcoin Energy Consumption Could Drive Innovation, Says Research Associate appeared first on Ethereum World News. дальше »
2018-8-21 04:14 | |
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Research Associate: Conversations Around Bitcoin and Energy Have Been Oversimplified
In the almost decade long existence of Bitcoin, the network has repeatedly come under fire for the large amount of electricity required to secure it. However, one researcher believes that the current discussion on energy use is largely redundant since it doesn’t take into account how the electricity itself is sourced or how technology evolves. дальше »
2018-8-20 22:30 | |
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Maybe We Don’t Need To Worry About The Efficiency Of Bitcoin Mining After All
Stop worrying about how much energy mining Bitcoin uses, the title to a recent article written for The Conversation, you can find the original article for yourself, here. Should we stop worrying? Well according to Katrina Kelly-Pitou, yes we should. дальше »
2018-8-20 17:30 | |
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South Korea Blockchain Industry Blooming – Swytch Announces Partnership to Expand Possibilities for Renewable Energies
South Korean city Chuncheon has joined with Swytch in a partnership to expand and accelerate the city’s use of renewable energy. In a move that mirrors other government investments in the blockchain, the agreement between the city and Swytch will see the two organizations examining how to use Swytch technology to make more citizens benefit […] South Korea Blockchain Industry Blooming – Swytch Announces Partnership to Expand Possibilities for Renewable Energies was originally found on [blokt] - Blockchain, Bitcoin & Cryptocurrency News. дальше »
2018-8-20 13:59 | |
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Hawaii’s Latest Bitcoin Scam
Customers of energy providers in Hawaii are the latest victims of a scam that has been designed to extort Bitcoin from victims. It’s a typical example of how cryptocurrencies can be used to illicit money out of unsuspecting victims, by using a cloak of anonymity to make the scammer seem legitimate. дальше »
2018-8-20 13:30 | |
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Global Forecast to 2023: Microsoft, IBM Leading Players in Blockchain in Energy Market
According to a report by ResearchAndMarkets. com, the global blockchain in energy market is expected to hit $7. 11 billion by 2023, with a compounded annual growth rate of 78. 32 percent. The growth is rapid, considering that the estimated global blockchain in energy market currently sits at $394. дальше »
2018-8-18 18:19 | |
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It Seems That Bitcoin Mining Is Starting To Really Offend Some People
Mining Bitcoin is a process that is loud, hot, expensive and also very noisy. As a result, mining efforts on a large scale tend to be focused out of town, in rural settings in factories that have an exclusive energy supply, in areas that are naturally very cold. дальше »
2018-8-17 15:00 | |
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PR: BITTECH Offers Two Mining Machines, Equipped with Mining Chips Using a Cutting-Edge 10 Nm Process Technology
BITTECH starts selling a new range of cryptocurrency mining hardware powered by 10 nm semiconductor chips (10 nm BT0010a and BT0010La mining chips). It is to be recalled that BITTECH introduced its first ASIC miner as early as mid-May, 2018. дальше »
2018-8-13 20:30 | |
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Crypto Startup Taps Larry King in Shared Effort to Combat Climate Change
In a message on GEAR Token’s website, iconic political talk show host Larry King says that global climate change is threatening humanity’s existence and is “a potentially catastrophic issue from the combustion of fossil fuels . дальше »
2018-8-13 18:08 | |
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Green Crypto Mining Will Define The Industry’s $38bn Future
In March this year, the sky officially fell in for Bitcoin miners. With the slump in prices and the extraordinary energy consumption it takes to mine the coins, Fortune revealed that mining a Bitcoin cost as much as buying one. дальше »
2018-8-10 18:41 | |
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Australia’s DC Two & D Coin to Create Solar-Powered Bitcoin Mining Farm Built by Hadouken
Australia Could Have The First Solar-Powered Bitcoin Mining Farm In A Coal Town A data center operator from Australia and its crypto subsidiary are developing a first, a Bitcoin mining farm that uses solar power to work, making it one of the most interesting ways to use renewable energy for Bitcoin mining. DC Two, a […] дальше »
2018-8-10 23:57 | |
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Qatar University Academic Says Bitcoin Mining is Constant Energy Drain on Environment
Constant Drain On Electricity of Bitcoin Mining “Threatens Our Existence,” Says Dr. Jon Truby It is no secret in the cryptocurrency industry that BitCoin mining, and the mining of other tokens, takes a lot of electricity to process. дальше »
2018-8-10 23:09 | |
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New Study Says Bitcoin Has An Energy Problem That Could Exacerbate Climate Change
A newly released study asserts a large amount of electricity is eaten up as Bitcoin is exchanged and mined. The author suggests these consumption habits could be churning out enough carbon emissions to affect global climate change. дальше »
2018-8-9 09:00 | |
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How To Pick The Right Cryptocurrency Fund: Trust Bitcoin Investment Types
Guide on How to Choose a Good Cryptocurrency Fund Investors that want to enter the virtual currency market need to have passion, dedication and energy to be all the time trading and analyzing different projects. дальше »
2018-8-7 21:45 | |
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Study Finds Bitcoin Mining May Threaten Paris Climate Agreement
According to MarketWatch, Bitcoin mining requires so much energy that it could pose a threat to the international Paris Agreement, which was designed in 2015 to reduce the amount of greenhouse gas emissions released into the earth’s atmosphere. дальше »
2018-8-3 12:29 | |
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The Backlash vs. Bitcoin Energy Consumers Has Started
“But when out of towners noticed cheap rates just as bitcoin prices began to spike they flocked here. In May and June, the Department agreed – allowing Plattsburgh and neighbouring counties to impose extremely high-density load tariffs on bitcoin cryptocurrency miners. дальше »
2018-8-3 23:31 | |
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Study Finds Bitcoin Mining May Threaten Paris Climate Agreement
According to MarketWatch, Bitcoin mining requires so much energy that it could pose a threat to the international Paris Agreement, which was designed in 2015 to reduce the amount of greenhouse gas emissions released into the earth’s atmosphere. дальше »
2018-8-3 21:31 | |
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How Bitcoin leads to increased energy theft
Bitcoin mining is seen as a way to make a good chunk of change without much thought, effort or maintenance. Especially when the crypto market is surging, mining becomes more enticing, drawing more to the crypto mining party. дальше »
2018-8-1 10:45 | |
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Facebook’s Record-Setting Stock Market Wipeout Revives Crypto Comparisons
Security and volatility. They are the two aspects of cryptocurrencies that are attacked the most. While there are other challenges such as scalability, the energy consumption associated with mining, and privacy, cryptos’ volatility is often cited by skeptics as the reason they could never become a mainstream payment method. In 2017 alone, Bitcoin’s value rose […] дальше »
2018-7-31 23:00 | |
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Bitcoin Energy: A Fight Against Guzzlers Started
“But when out of towners noticed cheap rates just as bitcoin prices began to spike they flocked here. In May and June, the Department agreed – allowing Plattsburgh and neighbouring counties to impose extremely high-density load tariffs on bitcoin cryptocurrency miners. дальше »
2018-7-31 22:06 | |
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Power Grid Operators Are Tracking Down Bitcoin Mining Electricity Thieves
Crypto mining is one of the world’s largest sources of energy consumption. Typically, you pay money for electricity, and this is an accepted cost of mining. But you can make even more money through crypto mining when you steal electricity – and that’s what people around the world have started to do. Approximately $90 billion […] дальше »
2018-7-31 08:56 | |
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Bitcoin (BTC) Price Watch: Bullish Correction Needed?
Bitcoin Price Key Highlights Bitcoin price continues to tread sideways in tight consolidation, and bulls might need to gather more energy on a correction. Applying the Fibonacci retracement tool shows the potential support zones where more buyers might be waiting. дальше »
2018-7-31 06:24 | |
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[promoted] WatermelonBlock Harnesses AI Brainpower to Fuel Crypto Market Analysis
The world of cryptocurrency is in a constant state of flux. As a result, the process of sorting through untold amounts of background information and data can be a laborious, time-consuming endeavor. дальше »
2018-7-30 16:47 | |
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Bitcoin Green’s Hugh Naylor on How to Mine Crypto Without “Destroying The Environment”
The crypto industry has a nasty problem: while most of the world is investing in sustainable energy solutions, cryptocurrency mining is using exorbitant amounts of energy. Environmentalists have criticized proof of work (PoW) blockchains as unsustainable and wasteful. дальше »
2018-7-30 22:48 | |
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Can a Wind Farm Help Morocco Become the Next Bitcoin Mining Paradise?
A remote location in Morocco has become a strategic spot to build a 900-megawatt wind farm as bitcoin miners look for cheap electricity in order to set up their computing centers. The spot south of Marrakesh is likely to turn into a cryptocurrency mining hub as the ecosystem favors renewable energy rather than utility grids. дальше »
2018-7-28 02:30 | |
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Achieving Truly Useful Proof of Work: Toby Simpson of Fetch.ai
What’s the best that can happen? That’s the focus of Fetch. ai in the realm of artificial intelligence (AI). Episode 025 of the What Bitcoin Did podcast featured a wide-ranging conversation between host Peter McCormack and Fetch co-founder/CTO Toby Simpson about both best-case and worst-case outcomes for AI. дальше »
2018-7-20 19:38 | |
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PoWx’s Optical Proof of Work May Solve two of Bitcoin’s Biggest Problems
With bitcoin becoming more competitive, a new organization looks to bring decentralization back to mining by renovating the Proof of Work (PoW) consensus algorithm that some miners have come to love. дальше »
2018-7-18 19:00 | |
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How You Can Earn Bitcoin from the Sun
“I believe being able to harness energy from our star to be a basic human right,” said Abe Cambridge, Sun Exchange’s founder and CEO. As electricity from the solar panels is generated, used and paid for, bitcoin is deposited into the Sun Exchange user’s account as a continuous cryptocurrency income stream that the user can дальше »
2018-7-17 20:31 | |
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PoWx Seeks to Change Bitcoin Mining with “Optical PoW”
Nonprofit organization PoWx has launched this week with the goal of boosting the idea behind proof of work (PoW) through more innovative algorithms. The company is seeking to decentralize Bitcoin mining and make it more accessible to consumers through a new technology that executives have dubbed “optical PoW” — a new type of hardware that utilizes a more advanced and energy-efficient form of laser technology as the cornerstone of mining. дальше »
2018-7-14 01:04 | |
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Nchain Group Granted Three New Blockchain Patents
The blockchain technologies research and development firm, Nchain, has acquired three new patents that have been issued by the European Patent Office. The company’s latest intellectual property invented by Nchain’s chief scientist, Dr. дальше »
2018-7-14 23:30 | |
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Bitcoin Burns More Energy Than Ireland Because of Millenials
Mining A mainstream media assertion made recently implies that cryptocurrency is quite costly in terms of energy consumption. Also read: Japanese Internet Giant GMO Boosts Own Bitcoin Mining Output With 7nm Rigs Bitcoin Said to Use ‘Almost’ as Much Electricity as Ireland Mainstream media is often preoccupied with exploring and revealing the negative effects of дальше »
2018-7-13 03:20 | |
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Mainstream Media Claims Bitcoin Burns More Energy Than Ireland – Does It?
A mainstream media assertion made recently implies that cryptocurrency is quite costly in terms of energy consumption. “Bitcoin has been alarming people for years,” the report notes, pointing to the amount of electricity used for its mining – almost as much as a small nation needs. дальше »
2018-7-13 02:05 | |
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Over 2 Million USD Invested into HashByte Cloud Mining in 2 Months
Bitcoin Press Release: HashByte, a cloud-mining service running purely off of renewable energy launched earlier this year, bringing with it wave of change to what has become a struggling industry. дальше »
2018-7-12 13:54 | |
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Bitcoin’s Exorbitant Energy Use Consumption For Blockchain Mining: Real Problem?
There are certainly a number of positive aspects to bitcoin, but there are also qualities that are less favorable as well. For example, bitcoin has been an issue due to the sheer amount of power necessary to create new virtual coinage. дальше »
2018-7-12 22:45 | |
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The reason Bitcoin utilizes higher power
Why does bitcoin require so much energy to make something that exists only electronically? Bitcoin and most other cryptocurrencies are founded on the notion of an immutable ledger, called the blockchain, which comprises transfers of value from one party to another. дальше »
2018-7-9 14:53 | |
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The Financial specialist explainsWhy bitcoin employments so much vitality – The Economist
Why does bitcoin require so much energy to make something that exists only electronically? Bitcoin and most other cryptocurrencies are founded on the notion of an immutable ledger, called the blockchain, which comprises transfers of value from one party to another. дальше »
2018-7-9 13:04 | |
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Why Pittin uses the most energy – the Economist
Why does bitcoin require so much energy to make something that exists only electronically? Bitcoin and most other cryptocurrencies are founded on the notion of an immutable ledger, called the blockchain, which comprises transfers of value from one party to another. дальше »
2018-7-9 09:41 | |
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Digital Isle of Man Joins the British Blockchain Association
One of the earliest adopters of blockchain technology — the Digital Isle of Man (Digital IOM) — is now an official member of the British Blockchain Association (BBA). дальше »
2018-7-6 17:27 | |
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Quebec Mining Drama: Bitmain Money Muscle or Local Sour Grapes?
Tempers are flaring in Quebec, as its climate and relatively cheap electricity have made it a magnet for the burgeoning cryptocurrency mining industry. The provincial government and its energy concern, Hydro-Quebec, have been accused of playing favorites to the likes of mining giants such as Bitmain. дальше »
2018-7-6 16:50 | |
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What Does Siemens Internet of Energy Have in Store for the World?
After launching the first intelligent transformer in the world, known as Sensformer, Siemens is getting ready to innovate further and become a pioneer of the Internet of Energy. The company is looking forward to creating a decentralized, two-flow energy grid that works with distributed ledger technology. дальше »
2018-7-5 13:04 | |
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Bitcoin [BTC] mining in Iceland to be taken over by machine learning
Bitcoin [BTC] mining has become popular in Iceland, due to its cool climate and cheap energy costs. More recently, however, the infrastructure used for the mining process may be reused. Electricity consumed by the farms equal almost as much energy as all of Iceland’s households combined. дальше »
2018-7-5 08:19 | |
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