Bitcoin emissions alone could push global warming above 2°C
By Camilo Mora, Randi L. Rollins, K. Taladay, M. Kantar, M. K. Chock, M. Shimada, E. Franklin. Nature Climate Change, 2018
355 citations recorded by the source corpus.
Subfields: Management Science and Operations Research, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment
View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/2014c54382134b83a5a5c2e8ee00e43748f0cef1
How researchers see this paper
The researchers whose trusted networks rank it highest, strongest advocate first. Every researcher gets a different order.
In Management Science and Operations Research
- Nripendra P. Rana
- Joelle Pineau
- Yogesh Kumar Dwivedi
- Peter Henderson
- Abdullah Mohammed Baabdullah
- Suprateek Sarker
- Frantz Rowe
- Maung Kyaw Sein
In Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment
Citations in the corpus
- Towards the Systematic Reporting of the Energy and Carbon Footprints of Machine Learning (2020, background): “For example, one study suggested that “bitcoin emissions alone could push global warming above 2 °C” (Mora et al., 2018).”
- Climate change and COP26: Are digital technologies and information management part of the problem or the solution? An editorial reflection and call to action (2022, background): “…impact of vast bitcoin mining farms in various parts of the world and their appetite for significant energy consumption - 121.36 terawatts hours per year (CBECI, 2021) – illustrates the dichotomy of rapid technological advancement and potential barriers to net zero by 2050 (Mora et al., 2018).”
- Cryptodamages: Monetary value estimates of the air pollution and human health impacts of cryptocurrency mining (2020, background): “It was recently argued that CO2 emissions from Bitcoin mining alone could push global warming above the 2 °C threshold of concern [13].”
- The Energy Consumption of Blockchain Technology: Beyond Myth (2020, background): “In their publication in ‘‘Nature Climate Change’’, Mora et al. (2018) extrapolate the energy consumption of a single Bitcoin transaction to the order of magnitude required for handling payments on a global scale.”
- Blockchain without Waste: Proof-of-Stake (2020, neutral): “Nakamoto (2008) alleged to resolve the issue of consensus within a permissionless blockchain by employing an economic protocol known as Proof-of-Work (PoW). PoW requires validators to compete to update the blockchain. The competition consists of solving a trivial puzzle so that success probabilities”