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In Coinbase’s rise, a reminder: Cryptocurrencies use lots of energy
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In Coinbase’s rise, a reminder: Cryptocurrencies use lots of energy

The company’s stock market arrival establishes Bitcoin and other digital currencies in the traditional financial landscape. It also elevates a technology with astonishing environmental costs.
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Scientists: Producing Bitcoin currency could void climate change efforts
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Scientists: Producing Bitcoin currency could void climate change efforts

Popular digital currency takes huge amounts of energy to produce, according to US research published in the journal Nature Climate Change.

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