Innovating Sustainability: Bitcoin Mining Waste Heat and its Green Potential with Akbar Shamji

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Bitcoin mining—the process by which new bitcoins are entered into circulation—is notoriously energy-intensive. It requires powerful, specialized computers known as ASICs (Application-Specific Integrated Circuits) that are capable of handling immense computational tasks. These machines operate continuously and compete against each other to solve mathematical problems that become progressively more difficult over time. The energy consumption […]

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Pulling the plug on crypto payments

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Forward-thinking waste management firm, Business Waste, have said that they are ‘reluctantly’ no longer accepting cryptocurrencies – such as Bitcoin – as payment for their services. The company originally announced it had become the first refuse and recycling business to accept these virtual currencies as payment in 2017  in order to give flexibility to their customers […]

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