What price cryptocurrency? Bitcoin uses nearly as much electricity as the entire country of Poland, more water than New York City, “a swimming pool of water” per payment
2023-12-13
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Every Bitcoin transaction uses, on average, enough water to fill “a back yard swimming pool”, a new study suggests. That’s around six million times more than is used in a typical credit card swipe, Alex de Vries of Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, calculates. The figure is due to the water used to power and cool the millions of computers worldwide Bitcoin relies on. It comes as many regions struggle with