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Bonus: Nic Carter Article on WH Report on Bitcoin Mining Climate Impact

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Energy Consumption Estimates for Crypto-Asset Mining

The Office of Science and Technology policy can do that part. Generating energy mix projections and hence emissions trajectories is much more difficult, but you can always just use the generic US carbon intensity. If miners can't do this, Congress might consider legislation to limit or eliminate the use of high-energy-intensity consensus mechanisms for crypto-asset mining. No such rule exists for any other extractive industry in the US,. even though gold mining uses a comparable amount of much dirtier energy.

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