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Bitcoin environmental battles heat up in USBitcoin industry battles increase in US. Environmental concerns grow over energy consumption. Legal fights erupt over mining permits. Commu...
Bitcoin mining struggles to go green, research showsProcessing bitcoin transactions and "mining" new tokens is done by powerful computers, hooked up to a global network, that compete against ...
Cost of crypto: report say U.S. bitcoin as dirty as 6 million carsThe industry's carbon footprint, the groups said, was 27.4 million tonnes from mid-2021 through 2022 - three times that of the largest U.S....
'Merge' in: Ethereum slashes energy use with software upgradeThe new system will use 99.95% less energy, according to the Ethereum Foundation. The upgrade, which changes how transactions occur and how...
Ethereum blockchain has completed major software upgrade, co-founder saysUnder the change, Ethereum will move from a "proof of work" system, in which energy-hungry computers validate transactions by solving compl...
Cryptoverse: Ether snaps at bitcoin's heels in race for crypto crownBitcoin's dominance, or its share of the crypto market's market value, has slipped to 39.1% from this year's peak of 47.5% in mid-June, acc...
Tesla to accept dogecoin as payment for merchandise, says Elon MuskTesla CEO Elon Musk on Friday said the electric carmaker will accept meme-based digital currency dogecoin for merchandise.
How tweets by Tesla's Elon Musk have moved marketsIn September 2018, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filed a lawsuit against Musk for fraud and sought to remove him from Tesla.
Ethereum jumps to record high amid crypto’s decentralized boomThe digital asset gained as much as 4.8% to $4,459.20, topping the previous record of $4,379.62 in May. The token traded around $4,387 as o...
Bitcoin tops $40,000 after Musk says Tesla could use it againBitcoin has gyrated to Musk's views for months since Tesla announced a $1.5 billion bitcoin purchase in February and said it would take the...
Tesla to accept bitcoin again when greenerElon Musk stated that Tesla will accept payments in the form of cryptocurrency 'when there's confirmation of reasonable (~50%) clean energy...
Bitcoin rises 9.8% to $39,035Bitcoin, the world's biggest and best-known cryptocurrency, is up 40.7% from the year's low of $27,734 on Jan. 4
Bitcoin jumps after Elon Musk says Tesla will accept crypto when miners use clean energyElon Musk also said that Tesla sold about 10% of holdings to confirm bitcoin could be liquidated easily without moving market.
Bitcoin resumes slide as energy usage debate whipsaws investorsThe largest digital currency slipped as much as 6.5% to $36,494 in New York, following a 16% jump on Monday. The wider Bloomberg Galaxy Cry...
Elon Musk jolts Bitcoin higher with push to burnish miners’ imageMusk and Michael Saylor, another long-time Bitcoin booster, tweeted that they held a call with major North American miners, including Micha...
Elon Musk tweets he supports crypto in battle against fiat currenciesBitcoin rose after Musk’s post to trade at around $38,150 as of 12:27 p.m. London time.
Bitcoin posts record weekly outflows as gains stallSince hitting a record just under $65,000 in mid-April, bitcoin's price has fallen 35%. Bitcoin was down 5.2% at $44,073, driven by tweets ...
Why does Bitcoin consume 'insane' energy?"If Bitcoin was a country, it would use around the same amount of electricity a year to mine as Switzerland does in total," Deutsche Bank a...
Elon Musk wants a greener bitcoin. Has he got a plan or a pipedream?Tesla can itself take an active role in helping make bitcoin greener by investing in new projects aimed at boosting the use of renewable en...
Elon Musk decries bitcoin's 'insane' energy use after Tesla U-turnElon Musk tweets a graph of bitcoin's power consumption, saying "Energy usage trend over past few months is insane." This, after he earlier...