Could bitcoin cost us our clean energy?

With the value of bitcoin reaching new heights everyday its no surprise that that many folk are jumping at the opportunity to mine. Many people look at how many watts their miner may use simply to calculate the cost and find their ROI time but mining could be costing us more than just money especially is places line mainland China where smog is already a huge problem. At its current growth rate by July 2019, the bitcoin network will require more electricity than the entire United States currently uses andby February 2020, it will use as much electricity as the entire world does today. This is an unsustainable but luckily their are serveral efforts underway reform how the bitcoin network processes transactions, with the hope that it’ll one day require less electricity to make new coins such as more affordable solar power