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10% Of World's Richest Have Higher Carbon Footprint Than Poorest 50%: Study
Ten per cent of the world's richest individuals have a higher carbon footprint than the poorest 50 per cent, leading to climate extremes such as heat waves and droughts, according to a study on Wednesday.
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IMF Says Crypto Industry's Carbon Footprint Rising; Officials Mull Tax Surge to Curb Emissions
IMF officials have raised concerns about the crypto sector's carbon emissions and are considering whether a tax increase on crypto mining could help reduce its carbon footprint. In a blog post, the officials suggested that an 85 percent tax hike on power usage by crypto miners could potentially cut the sector's annual emissions by an estimated 100 ...
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Bitcoin Mining Surges to New Record, Profit Margins Decline as Ethereum Merge Frees Up Capacity
Bitcoin mining has hit a new record in the aftermath of the Ethereum Merge, the technical upgrade that replaced as many as one million powerful computers with Ether holders to validate transaction data encrypted by the network and reduce its carbon footprint by 99 percent. Meanwhile, mining difficulty, a measure of Bitcoin miners’ computing power...
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Ether Outperforms Bitcoin As Anticipation Builds For Software Upgrade
Ether is outperforming its better-known-rival Bitcoin once again as optimism over a long-sought update that promises to reduce the carbon footprint of the worlds most-used blockchain appears to be getting closer to fruition.
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‘Not Possible to Destroy Cryptocurrencies’: Elon Musk Says Governments Can Only Crunch Crypto Growth Rate
Elon Musk believes that governments that have reservations against regulating cryptocurrencies can simply “do nothing” and perhaps, slow down crypto expansion.
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Will Volcanic Geo-Thermal Energy Soon Power ‘Clean’ Bitcoin Mining in El Savador?
El Salvador President has instructed the state-owned geothermal power supplier to enable Bitcoin mining centres near the volcanos for clean energy.
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Miami Mayor Aims to Reduce Carbon Footprint of Bitcoin Miners as City Approves Native Crypto-Coin
Miami mayor Francis Suarez has proposed to set up energy-consuming Bitcoin mining facility near a nuclear power plant. The city also launched its own crypto token, Miami coin.
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Bitcoin’s Carbon Footprint Equal to Sri Lanka, Researchers Claim
Bitcoin is responsible for the same amount of carbon dioxide emissions as a city like Las Vegas an entire developing country like Sri Lanka and efforts to reduce its climate footprint should be considered, researchers said Thursday.
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10% Of World's Richest Have Higher Carbon Footprint Than Poorest 50%: Study
Ten per cent of the world's richest individuals have a higher carbon footprint than the poorest 50 per cent, leading to climate extremes such as heat waves and droughts, according to a study on Wednesday.
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IMF Says Crypto Industry's Carbon Footprint Rising; Officials Mull Tax Surge to Curb Emissions
IMF officials have raised concerns about the crypto sector's carbon emissions and are considering whether a tax increase on crypto mining could help reduce its carbon footprint. In a blog post, the officials suggested that an 85 percent tax hike on power usage by crypto miners could potentially cut the sector's annual emissions by an estimated 100 ...
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Bitcoin Mining Surges to New Record, Profit Margins Decline as Ethereum Merge Frees Up Capacity
Bitcoin mining has hit a new record in the aftermath of the Ethereum Merge, the technical upgrade that replaced as many as one million powerful computers with Ether holders to validate transaction data encrypted by the network and reduce its carbon footprint by 99 percent. Meanwhile, mining difficulty, a measure of Bitcoin miners’ computing power...
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Ether Outperforms Bitcoin As Anticipation Builds For Software Upgrade
Ether is outperforming its better-known-rival Bitcoin once again as optimism over a long-sought update that promises to reduce the carbon footprint of the worlds most-used blockchain appears to be getting closer to fruition.
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‘Not Possible to Destroy Cryptocurrencies’: Elon Musk Says Governments Can Only Crunch Crypto Growth Rate
Elon Musk believes that governments that have reservations against regulating cryptocurrencies can simply “do nothing” and perhaps, slow down crypto expansion.
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Will Volcanic Geo-Thermal Energy Soon Power ‘Clean’ Bitcoin Mining in El Savador?
El Salvador President has instructed the state-owned geothermal power supplier to enable Bitcoin mining centres near the volcanos for clean energy.
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Miami Mayor Aims to Reduce Carbon Footprint of Bitcoin Miners as City Approves Native Crypto-Coin
Miami mayor Francis Suarez has proposed to set up energy-consuming Bitcoin mining facility near a nuclear power plant. The city also launched its own crypto token, Miami coin.
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Bitcoin’s Carbon Footprint Equal to Sri Lanka, Researchers Claim
Bitcoin is responsible for the same amount of carbon dioxide emissions as a city like Las Vegas an entire developing country like Sri Lanka and efforts to reduce its climate footprint should be considered, researchers said Thursday.
