A last-minute attempt in Europe to ban Bitcoin fails in key vote

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A last minute attempt in Europe to ban Bitcoin fails in key vote

Center-left legislators had targeted Bitcoin's Proof-of-Work consensus mechanism that consumes as much energy as entire countries.

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A last-minute attempt in Europe to ban Bitcoin fails in key vote​

 

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The carbon footprint of a single Bitcoin transaction equals a transatlantic return flight [from] London to New York. This is 1.5 million times the energy used up by a Visa transaction

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