Enormous energy consumption has barely reduced despite $1tn being wiped off the sector
Cryptocurrencies work by validating their transactions through huge numbers of “miners”, who use their computers to solve extremely complex maths problems in exchange for the chance of getting tokens as a reward, in a highly energy-intensive process.
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