Mining One Bitcoin a Month Would Require Harvesting Body Heat from 44,000 People

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Mining One bitcoin a Month Would Require Harvesting Body Heat from 44,000 People

In a bid to raise awareness about the crypto industry’s energy consumption, the Institute of Human Obsolescence, a Dutch organization focused on data ownership, explored the energy usage of bitcoin and found that 44,000 would need to provide their body energy for a month in order to mine a single bitcoin, Motherboard reported on January 3, 2017. bitcoin’s Troubling Ecological…Read More. The post by Priyeshu Garg appeared first on BTCManager, bitcoin, Blockchain & Cryptocurrency News

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