Energy Consumption

Cleanspark Purchases 45,000 Bitcoin Mining Devices, Adding 6.3 EH/s to Current Fleet

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El martes, the bitcoin mining company Cleanspark announced that it had purchased 45,000 Antminer S19 XP bitcoin mining devices for a total price of $144.9 millón. Cleanspark stated that the new fleet would add 6.3 exhash por segundo (EH/s) of computational…

ESG Analyst Daniel Batten Reveals Dynamic Charts Showing Bitcoin’s 52.6% Sustainable Energy Use

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Environmental, social, and governance (ESG) analyst Daniel Batten said Tuesday that the computational backbone of the Bitcoin network now uses 52.6% sustainable energy. Batten and onchain analyst Willy Woo created Dynamic Bitcoin ESG Charts to showcase the protocol’s progress. Contrary to…

La dificultad de la minería de Bitcoin alcanza su máximo histórico mientras los mineros enfrentan el segundo mayor aumento este año

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Bitcoin’s mining difficulty reached an all-time high (ATH) on Feb. 24, 2023, a la altura del bloque #778,176, alcanzando 43.05 trillion hashes and surpassing the 40 trillion mark for the first time ever. The network’s difficulty increased by 9.95%, which is the second-largest…

Ex empleado de la escuela secundaria Cohasset acusado de robar miles de dólares en electricidad para extraer Bitcoin en el espacio de acceso del campus escolar

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A former school assistant facilities director in Cohasset, Massachusetts, has been accused of operating a cryptocurrency mining operation inside a crawlspace at Cohasset High School. The Cohasset Police Department alleges that Nadeam Nahas stole nearly $18,000 in electricity to power the…

Bitcoin Mining Report Shows Network’s Emissions Account for 0.08% of the World’s CO2

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During the last year, Bitcoin — the cryptocurrency network that leverages proof-of-work (PoW) to process transactions and secure the protocol — has received a lot of criticism about its environmental impact. Esta semana, the cryptocurrency firm Coinshares published a report that…