Bitcoin costs the climate more than beef farming

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The True Cost of Cryptocurrency
With much lower prices in and , BTC climate damages were 64% of market price, on average. For more than one-third of the days in The negative climate impacts of mining the cryptocurrency Bitcoin have grown rapidly over time, with carbon emissions per coin multiplying. From a climate damages perspective, the researchers said bitcoin is more of a �digital crude� than gold, which has climate costs of just 4% its.