As AI companies work furiously to improve the intelligence and usefulness of their products, their demand for cheap, plentiful energy has skyrocketed. This gold rush has been extremely profitable for ...
As the Bitcoin price remains one of the most-watched indicators in global finance, sustainability has become a more important ...
Bitcoin miners don't solve complex math problems - they guess numbers. While "solving mathematical puzzles" has become a common description of bitcoin mining, the process more closely resembles a ...
Douglas McIntyre, Editor-in-Chief at Climate Crisis 24/7, reports on a new study predicting that Bitcoin mining will rely on 70% renewable energy within five years. Given Bitcoin’s massive electricity ...
Bitcoin mining is quietly staging a comeback in China despite being banned four years ago, as individual and corporate miners ...
Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO), Japan’s largest electricity provider, has begun mining Bitcoin through its subsidiary Agile Energy X using excess renewable energy that would otherwise be wasted, ...