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Bitcoin: China’s Crackdown Isn’t Enough – Only a Global Effort Can Stop Crypto’s Monstrous Energy Demand

Author:
Howson, Peter
Publication:
The Conversation
Year:
2021

Huge concrete data centres, permanently plugged into power plants and telephone exchanges, maintain much of online life. But the infrastructure behind internet-based cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin, dogecoin and ethereum is more like a rusty travelling circus. And right now, that circus is on the road...