How green is my bitcoin?

Walker, Martin C. W. (2021) How green is my bitcoin? LSE Business Review (25 May 2021). Blog Entry.

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Abstract

Green bitcoin has been proposed as a way to counter the excessive energy consumption and CO2 emissions of cryptocurrencies. However, Martin C.W. Walker writes that the whole idea that you can create a green type of bitcoin that would work alongside non-green ones is hard to maintain. That would mean ignoring the way the cryptocurrency “mining” system works. He finds a potential solution in a joke white paper by an author purporting to be Natoshi Sakamoto’s wife: a single ordinary server to process the same volume of transactions as the entire bitcoin network.

Item Type:	Online resource (Blog Entry)
Official URL:	https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/businessreview/
Additional Information:	© 2021 The Author
Divisions:	LSE
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor > HD28 Management. Industrial Management H Social Sciences > HG Finance
Date Deposited:	23 Jul 2021 11:21
Last Modified:	19 Jun 2025 08:57
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/111260

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