Bitcoin mining struggles to be sustainable

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Bitcoin mining struggles to be sustainable
Bitcoin is struggling to go green, with the cryptocurrency making only slim gains in its usage of sustainable energy in the year to January, research by Cambridge University showed on Tuesday. Processing bitcoin transactions and "mining" new tokens is done by powerful computers, hooked up to a ...

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