@thetrocro - A Philosopher Talks Bitcoin! #234
Once Bitten! A Bitcoin Podcast.
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Bit Coin Is Going to Push Temperature's Over 2 Degrees
A group of climate scientists, all of them at the university of hawaii, say bit coin is going to push us over o degrees. They calculate a la alex devris to apas by dividing all emissions of bit coin by the transactions. Then they ignore block size and assume that blocks grow to be big enough to hold all the world's transactions. And suddenly we're at like two degrees. And this gis published, and nature climate change. And then, of course, it's like refuted three times in the same year, in the same journal. But it doesn't matter. That's the paper that 70 environmental organizations sight as their only academic source for saying that bit coin
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