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"Tesla will not be selling any bitcoin and we intend to use it for transactions as soon as mining transitions to more sustainable energy... We are also looking at other cryptocurrencies that use (less than 1 per cent) of bitcoin’s energy/transaction."

- #ElonMusk, CEO of #Tesla, 2021

https://www.news.com.au/finance/money/investing/elon-musk-bitcoin-tesla-suspends-vehicle-purchases-using-bitcoin-over-fossil-fuel-concerns/news-story/b58c5576c7cccebd06f2a8b805e3a27b

#BitCoin #CryptoTokens #blockchain
#blockchain #bitcoin #Tesla #elonmusk #cryptotokens
Strypey
Strypey  
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To everyone busy videos moralizing about how much electricity BitCoin uses, in videos published on YouTube ...

"YouTube uses about 243.6 TWh (over 1% of global electricity)"

https://thefactsource.com/how-much-electricity-does-youtube-use/

... and that's only in their datacentres. Add to that all the energy used sending video across the wire and playing it on people's devices.

#BitCoin #YouTube #EnergyUse
#youtube #bitcoin #energyuse
grin
grin  
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"In 2020, for the fourth year in a row, #google purchased enough renewable energy to match 100 percent of our annual global electricity consumption."

https://www.google.com/about/datacenters/renewable/

#YouTube #EnergyUse
#google #youtube #energyuse
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