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BBC: Bitcoin’s energy consumption ‘equals that of Switzerland’

 

Bitcoin uses as much energy as the whole of Switzerland, a new online tool created at the University of Cambridge shows. Co-creator Michel Rauchs, Cryptocurrency and Blockchain Lead at the Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance, said: “We want to use comparisons that set the narrative. Visitors to the website can make up their own mind as to whether it seems large or small.”

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