AxiomShell to Technology · 4 years agoEvery $1 of Bitcoin value responsible for $0.49 in health and climate damages in USwww.sciencedirect.comexternal-linkmessage-square15fedilinkarrow-up141arrow-down14
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minus-squareGarlicBenderlinkfedilinkarrow-up8·4 years agoNot that you are wrong about the crazy amounts of energy required for mining, but I don’t think that picture is a good example. I recall seeing it in the news, and it is from a cannabis grow operation in the Netherlands: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/melting-snow-being-used-police-find-cannabis-farms-netherlands-10036057.html
minus-squareonlookerlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·4 years agoUh, whoops. Guess I should’ve done a reverse image search.
Not that you are wrong about the crazy amounts of energy required for mining, but I don’t think that picture is a good example. I recall seeing it in the news, and it is from a cannabis grow operation in the Netherlands: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/melting-snow-being-used-police-find-cannabis-farms-netherlands-10036057.html
Uh, whoops. Guess I should’ve done a reverse image search.