Bitcoin's Growing Energy Problem

By A.W.G. de Vries. 2018

570 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Artificial Intelligence, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Hardware and Architecture

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/51648f57cd9d445519ebba8ff583a7150d9bd0e7

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Citations in the corpus

• Blockchain Technology Overview (2018, background): “The amount of energy used is often not trivial; for example, some estimate that currently the Bitcoin blockchain network uses around the same amount of electricity as the entire country of Ireland [25].”
• Cryptodamages: Monetary value estimates of the air pollution and human health impacts of cryptocurrency mining (2020, background): “But, for many prominent cryptocurrencies, opportunities for profitable mining currently appear to require highly dedicated or specialized hardware concentrated in largescale mining farms or pools [1,3,4,5,6].”