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Posted by | June 7, 2022
White House Preparing New Study on How To Curb Crypto Energy Footprint: Report

A leading legal publication reports the White House is undertaking a study on crypto asset mining and the attendant environmental consequences. According to Bloomberg Law, the priority of the study...

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Posted by | February 25, 2022
Tesla Was ‘Very Ignorant’ on Bitcoin’s Environmental Impact When It Initially Bought BTC: Elon Musk’s Brother

Kimbal Musk, the younger brother of Tesla CEO and billionaire Elon Musk, says he regrets the electric vehicle company’s decision to buy $1.5 billion worth of Bitcoin (BTC) a year...

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Posted by | March 10, 2021
True or false? A single NFT can power a European household for 1.5 months

The recent boom in non-fungible tokens, or NFTs, has been accompanied with controversy and concern over the technology’s environmental impact due to the computational power required.Out of all transaction types...

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Posted by | March 9, 2021
‘Ecological nightmare’ backlash forces ArtStation to drop NFT plans

Prominent online art portfolio platform ArtStation has caved in to pressure from artists and environmentally-conscious users hours after announcing a series of non-fungible token, or NFT, drops from several notable...

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Posted by | February 9, 2021
Bitcoin energy debate resurfaces with calls for ‘green hackers’ to attack network

The exponential rise in Bitcoin’s price and hash rate is driving critics to once again question the largest blockchain’s energy efficiency — with calls for “green hackers” to band together...

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