Bitcoin consumes as much water as all the baths in Britain, study claims
by Anthony Cuthbertson
Nov 29, 2023
2 minutes
Bitcoin mining requires as much water annually as all of the baths in Britain, according to a new analysis of the cryptocurrency’s environmental impact.
Financial economist Alex de Vries, who runs the Bitcoin Energy Consumption Index, estimated that roughly 1.6 trillion litres of water
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