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 Gm nostriches, Trying to stay calm and in my lane, focusing upon writing rigourous and constructive research into bitcoin and bitcoin mining, but there is so much BAD research being push out there and HACK academics putting actually drivel on their CVs.

We had transactions being the same a swimming pools or iphones (flippin' de Vries), now we have.....

"Executing a single Bitcoin transaction equates approximately to the greenhouse gas emissions of a moderate-sized electric or gasoline engine sedan vehicle traveling between 1600 and 2600 km"

Hey guys, I can only respond to one paper at a time, I'm going to have to go full time "critical response guy" and fully ditch the teaching element of my job. Given the ethical quandry of supporting a system that gets kids into debt while providing them with limited skills, I'm not sure what excuses I have left......

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11625-024-01576-5