Bitcoin energy bill matches Ecuador's

• Autores: Abigail Beall
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 3150, 2017, pág. 8
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Bitcoin has an energy problem. The cryptocurrency, and the blockchain it runs on, have long been heralded as the future of financial transactions, replacing people with an array of number-crunching computers. But its energy expenditure is becoming clear just as the blockchain and cryptocurrencies are exploding into the mainstream. That realization has spawned a host of strange workarounds, from heaters that warm home with the blockchain, to renewable mining. Now, the creator of one of the world's biggest cryptocurrency networks has announced a major change to address the problem