Concern for the environmental toll of creating new units of the world’s best-known cryptocurrency in a process called mining. The computers that mint new Bitcoin ... to keep the flow of new ...

The computers necessary for that process are run by companies like HashCow and BIT.TOP. China accounts for more than 75% of bitcoin ... a massive flow of capital into crypto mining, but ...

The below chart ... the process of manufacturing solar panels often uses coal and produces toxic waste as a byproduct. Most solar panels are manufactured in China in the Xinjiang region (which, until ...

As the chart below demonstrates, in November, the entire bitcoin mining industry earned less than $500 million from processing transactions and issuing new coins. The bar chart below shows this ...