A Survey on Technologies Which Make Bitcoin Greener or More Justified
According to recent estimates, one bitcoin transaction consumes as much energy as 1.5 million Visa transactions. Why is bitcoin using so much energy? Most of the energy is used during the bitcoin mining process, which serves at least two significant purposes: a) distributing new cryptocurrency coins...
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IEEE
2022-01-01
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Series: | IEEE Access |
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Online Access: | https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9829550/ |