Causes www.nytimes.com 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.
Newsletter www.voanews.com 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.