Can We Prevent a Global Energy Crisis From Bitcoin Mining?

http://ift.tt/eA8V8JBitcoin's computing network has grown at an 1,100 percent average annual pace over the last five years. So if we project out just a few years, we get a truly massive energy demand for the new king of coins: Bitcoin would use more electricity than the entire world uses today, by 2020, if the recent growth ...

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