#Bitcoin must die
BRUH.
If Bitcoin were to cease trading tomorrow, 0.5% of the world’s electricity demand would simply disappear. This is roughly equivalent to the output of ten coal-fired power plants, emitting 50 million tonnes of CO2 per year – which would cover one year’s worth of the carbon emission cuts required to limit temperature rises this century to 2C.
@jalcine Careful with those click bait articles.
For the first link, its only reference to the claim that "it consumes as much power as #Austria" is a Vice article headlined "Nobody knows exactly how much energy bitcoin is using" and in the subheading it says "New research suggests..." which is #journospeak for "it doesn't *actually* say that, but that's what for the purposes of my article I would like it to mean".
