Motherboard : "Bitcoin could consume as much electricity as Denmark by 2020... | Ce monde à inventer ! | Scoop.it
Sebastiaan Deetman 31/03/16 : "I’m an engaged environmental researcher and have recently become a bitcoin enthusiast. These are two possibly conflicting fascinations, as previously pointed out by Christopher Malmo here at Motherboard. That’s because bitcoin is incredibly energy intensive : at the time of Malmo’s piece, he calculated that a single bitcoin transaction requires as much electricity as the daily consumption of 1.6 American households, and that number has increased since then...