Why Cryptocurrencies Use So Much Energy--and What to Do About It.
The article discusses concerns regarding the electricity consumption of mining for cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin and suggested prevention measures. Topics include Bitcoin's use of a proof-of-work system to mine new bitcoins which uses a lot of computer power and electricity, Bitcoin's adoption of...
| Publicado en: | Communications of the ACM Vol. 61; no. 7; pp. 15 - 18 |
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Association for Computing Machinery
Jul2018
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| Sumario: | The article discusses concerns regarding the electricity consumption of mining for cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin and suggested prevention measures. Topics include Bitcoin's use of a proof-of-work system to mine new bitcoins which uses a lot of computer power and electricity, Bitcoin's adoption of application-specific integrated circuits to allow faster mining, and efforts to find greener ways to mine cryptocurrencies such as Ethereum's mining on general-purpose graphics processing units (GPUs). |
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