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US Government Launches New Attempt to Gather Data on Electricity Usage of Bitcoin Mining (insideclimatenews.org)
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[โ€“] FaceDeer@fedia.io 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Note that the second-largest cryptocurrency, Ethereum, no longer uses proof-of-work to validate its chain. So any regulations or data on electricity usage will be basically irrelevant to it.

[โ€“] randompasta@lemmy.today 0 points 4 months ago

Hopefully other crypto follows suit.