The Crypto Chernobyl

1 · Stephen Diehl · Feb. 10, 2021, midnight
The Crypto Chernobyl In recent history the mining, petroleum, and nuclear industries have all had their share of environmental disasters. These are household names that every school child learns: Chernobyl. Fukushima. Deepwater. Kingston. Valdez. However you may not know that as you read this, the tech industry is having its own environmental disaster moment and you may have heard its name: Bitcoin. For those of you living in a monastery for the last decade, bitcoin is a computer protocol that p...