Bitcoin could be as bad for the planet as beef

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A look at the relative value of the cryptocurrency’s climate damage puts it in the same league as cattle farming or gasoline burning, according to a new study.

Bitcoin mining’s climate impact is comparable to farming cattle or burning petrol when taken as a proportion of market value, according to researchers at the University of New Mexico in

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That's total nonsense, have you checked how much climate damage the banking industry has done?

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