Bitcoin

The price of bit coin has fallen from almost 50 thousand dollars to below 20 thousand dollars, which as its lowest since the endof 20 20. It's recovered slightly since then, but it's really been a massive fallf for people. Almost a trillion dollars value gone. When you mine bit coin, as they call it, it uses so much computing energy that that's fed by cold power stations, often,. isn't it? Yes. Ocparrently, the whole bit coin network uses as much annual electricity as a country the size of the netherlands or also, is equivalent to all the fridges in the us.

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