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The Impact Cryptocurrencies Have on the Environment

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Last updated on: March 2, 2022

The world of cryptocurrencies is expanding as more and more people are buying into the various types of coins and tokens. This new-age currency is digitized and maintained via a blockchain that keeps a detailed record of each transaction that takes place. What does this mean? I mean that everything is visible to everyone, and this proves the secure nature of cryptocurrencies.

There are different ways that you can obtain a crypto coin. You might be given one by a friend or a family member, or you might decide to buy them with your fiat currency. One easy way to do this is to use an app like btc profit. Another way is to mine them, and we will be explaining how this is done, and the impact it has on the environment. 

How Do Crypto Mines Work?

Mining cryptocurrencies is something for extreme investors. Not only does it cost a lot to buy and build a mining computer, but it is a much more complicated process than simply buying a coin that has already been mined. 

To put it simply, miners, or crypto hunters, can obtain crypto coins, like BTC, by solving an equation created by the blockchain. This means the miners must work out what the right sequence of numbers is that answers the equation. Once it is solved, and the right numbers are put into the system, the miners will receive a certain amount of coins determined by the equation.

The blockchains are not able to be reprogrammed, and they are designed with a set of rules that govern the number of coins each equation gives out. This seems simple enough, but it is much more complicated. 

There are only a certain amount of crypto coins created, and there are endless number sequences that might solve the equation. It could be an endless job trying to do this with brain-power alone. This is why miners have very expensive mining software that automatically generates the codes. 

The use of mines has made a huge impact on the mining community of cryptocurrency. It has become much easier to find the answer to the equation because the mines process each code for you, and much faster.

Not only that but would you believe they have made a huge impact on the environment as well?

Mining Impact on the Environment. 

Many people might argue that cryptocurrencies are the next best thing for our society. It allows you to steer away from being controlled by institutions like banks, but at what cost?

You might be surprised to hear that cryptocurrencies have such an impact on the environment in terms of electricity waste. The fact of the matter is, they do. 

Cryptocurrency mines, and in particular, Bitcoin mines, take an enormous amount of power to keep running the number sequences. There is a perpetual race amongst the miners to find the most coins, so you can imagine that these machines are running permanently. 

Bitcoin was released with a limit of 21 million BTC coins. As the years have gone by, and more and more miners have joined the race, there are fewer and fewer BTC coins to be mined. This means that the software used to mine the coins must be much more powerful, and they will need more electricity.

It has been estimated that cryptocurrency mining creates just under 100 million tons of carbon dioxide emissions. To put it into perspective, that is a similar amount of carbon dioxide that is produced by a smaller country like Germany or Italy. 

What’s even more interesting, is that research has shown how most of that carbon dioxide is released in the US because that is where most of the mines are located.  

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