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Vaccine Usefulness and the Business of Bitcoin Mining

Bloomberg Businessweek

Mining Bit Coin, Mining Crypto, Is More Energy Intensive Than Other Types of Operations

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Mining conjures up images of machines going into the ground and shovels and picks. But mining bit coin is mor energy intensive than other types of operations that are done on high performance computers. A crypto currency itself, one of the main reasons why bitcoin was invented was really to offer a more transparent financial system.

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