The value of bitcoin may have stumbled in recent months, but in Iceland it has so far only known only one direction: upward. The stunning success of cryptocurrencies around the globe has had a more unexpected repercussion on this island of 340,000: It could soon result in an energy shortage in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. As […]
Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2018/02/13/cryptocurrency-mining-in-iceland-is-using-so-much-energy-the-electricity-may-run-out/
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