Currents 035: Steve Barbour on Mining Bitcoin with Methane
The Jim Rutt Show
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The Environmental Impact of Bit Coin
Fa invited steve to come on the show based on a little minor argument we had on twitter about whether what he was doing was environmentally good or bad, or neutral. Fa: I retract my complaint about it being an environmentally bad idea. Even if i do think that in general, bit coin is not worth the environmental cost. In this particular case, because the gas would be vented anyway one point, either vented or flared, i think the environmental impact is actually not too bad.
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