Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by honestlyreally 3220 days ago
>One thing that I rarely hear about crypto-currencies is the environmental impact

That's funny, it seems to be raised in every single hn cryptocurrency thread.

One thing I rarely see is a proper attempt to quantify co2 output. Electricity consumption is fairly well estimated, but environmental impact is not.

Would be interested to find one large industrial scale miner who actually has a negative impact on the scale that some talk about.

All the biggest I know of are located next to hydro dams and are 100% renewable.

It's rather naive to simply talk about electrity usage, nor all electricity is created equal.