Carbon Costs Quantified
Astral Codex Ten Podcast
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Carbon Footprint Estimation
In theory you can divide the network cost by the number of transactions to get a per transaction carbon number. But many bit coin users now use something called the lightning network, which is different from regular block chain and doesn't consume more carbon than other internet transactions. I rounded up quite a lot to adjust for americans eating more meat than british people. The extreme low estimate is represented by blomberg dot com, a news articles suburbs might be just as green as cities.
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