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Posted: Tue Dec 05, 2017 12:58 pm Post subject: Bitcoin Mining Now Uses More Power than 159 Countries |
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Digiconomist's Bitcoin Energy Consumption Index is showing that energy consumed by Bitcoin mining now exceeds what is used by countries like Ireland, Hungary, Oman, and Lebanon. Bitcoin uses about as much power as the entire country of Morocco and slightly less than Bulgaria. If Bitcoin were a country, it would have the 61st hig...read more |
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