A new study published in Nature Sustainability today finds mining a dollar’s worth of bitcoin uses more energy than mining a dollar’s worth of gold. It’s the latest in a string of studies trying to pinpoint the energy used in mining cryptocurrencies. Carolyn Beeler reports.
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