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No. 74 of 93 worst aged · Washington Post · December 19, 2017

“Why the bitcoin craze is using up so much energy”

Washington Post headline: Why the bitcoin craze is using up so much energy

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The website Digiconomist claims that bitcoin operations use as much energy as Denmark

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