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2024-01-11 08:46:39 UTC - HELPFUL
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The article cited in this piece on water usage was not peer-reviewed, and uses a "per transaction" metric that was called "not a meaningful metric" by Cambridge in 2018 https://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/2019-09-ccaf-2nd-global-cryptoasset-benchmarking.pdf Recent peer-reviewed literature suggests Bitcoin mining can have positive environmental consequences https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2023/11/bitcoin-could-support-renewable-energy-development
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