- RESEARCH HIGHLIGHT
‘Mining’ Bitcoin takes more energy than mining gold
A cryptocurrency-mining facility in Saint-Hyacinthe, Canada. The energy needed to mine gold coin is smaller than the energy to ‘mine’ Bitcoin of similar value. Credit: James MacDonald/Bloomberg/Getty
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Nature 563, 296 (2018)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-018-07283-3