Bitcoin Mining Consuming More Electricity Than 159 Countries

Bitcoin Mining Consuming Electricity

Bitcoin Mining Now Consuming More Electricity Than 159 Countries Including Ireland & Most Countries In Africa Bitcoin’s ongoing meteoric price rise has received the bulk of recent press attention with a lot of discussion around whether or not it’s a bubble waiting to burst. However, most the coverage has missed out one of the more interesting and unintended consequences of this price increase. That is the surge in global electricity consumption used to “mine” more Bitcoins. According to Digiconomist’s Bitcoin Energy Consumption Index, as of Monday November 20th, 2017 Bitcoin’s…

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Telegram May Enter Cryptocurrency

TON, Telegram Open Network

Cryptocurrency by Russia’s Telegram Founder Raises $850 Mln in Investments In early January, the TechCrunch website reported Telegram’s plans to launch its own blockchain, the “Telegram Open Network” (TON), platform and homegrown cryptocurrency. Russian tech genius, founder of Vkontakte and Telegram, Pavel Durov has filed a “Notice of Exempt Offering of Securities” with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), reporting $850 million raised from 81 investors for “the development of the TON Blockchain, the development and maintenance of Telegram Messenger.” While the SEC filing did not disclose the names…

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What Is The Difference Between Bitcoin and Ethereum?

ethereum, bitcoin

What Is The Difference Between Bitcoin and Ethereum? Last year, thanks to stratospheric rises in value, lots of people became aware of the existence of Bitcoin, as well as another often-cited up-and-coming cryptocurrency, Ethereum. By market cap they are the two most valuable cryptocurrencies – as of writing (and please note that these numbers fluctuate quite a lot), the total value of all the Bitcoin in existence is $143 billion, while Ethereum sits at $88 billion. For perspective – that means Bitcoin is currently held at around the same value…

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Alkebulan AKB, One Africa Cryptocurrency

Alkebulan AKB, One Africa Cryptocurrency

Alkebulan AKB, One Africa Cryptocurrency Africa,agricultural,energy Since the last few years i interest me for investments in the agricultural industry in Afrika. The problem is that there are to many bridges for investment opportunities in African countries. (eventually write an example about money transfers and currency exchanges which are expensive) There are a lot of opportunities in Africa for investments like in the Agricultural industry and the energy industry. With this concept were planning to remove all those bridges to make it easier for all the people on the world…

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