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While cryptocurrency may be virtual, the environmental toll of mining it is all too real. That’s the conclusion of a new book co-authored by three University of New Mexico professors, who explore the hidden cost of Bitcoin mining in “Energy Use in...

Taken as a share of the market price, the climate change impacts of mining the digital cryptocurrency Bitcoin is more comparable to the impacts of extracting and refining crude oil than mining gold, according to an analysis published in Scientific...