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Bitcoin Mining Rate and Waste (pthree.org)
3 points by lucaspiller on Feb 4, 2016 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment


"This comes at the expense of 1.3 million pounds of CO2 released into the atmosphere every hour. I would argue that Bitcoin is the worst idea to come out of Computer Science in the history of mankind."

Any good counterarguments? :)




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