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The Environmental Burden of the United States' Bitcoin Mining Boom.

Gianluca Guidi, Francesca Dominici, Nat Steinsultz, Gabriel Dance, Lucas Henneman, Henry Richardson, Edgar Castro, Falco J Bargagli-Stoffi, Scott Delaney

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors.

Gianluca GuidiDepartment of Biostatistics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
Francesca DominiciDepartment of Biostatistics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
Nat SteinsultzWattTime.org, Oakland, California, USA.
Gabriel DanceThe New York Times, New York, New York, USA.
Lucas HennemanDepartment of Civil, Environmental, and Infrastructure Engineering, Volgenau School of Engineering, George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia, USA.
Henry RichardsonWattTime.org, Oakland, California, USA.
Edgar CastroDepartment of Environmental Health, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
Falco J Bargagli-StoffiDepartment of Biostatistics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
Scott DelaneyDepartment of Environmental Health, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.

Funding

Translational Research Support CoreP30ES000002 · NIEHS · HARVARD UNIVERSITY (SCH OF PUBLIC HLTH) · PI JAIME ELIZABETH HART · 1985 to 2026
$44.6M
(R01 Transfer) Characterizing the link between multiple environmental exposures and Parkinsons disease exacerbationR01ES034373 · NIEHS · RUTGERS BIOMEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES · PI Danielle Braun, Antonella Zanobetti · 2022 to 2026
$2.9M
NIEHS NIH HHS P30 ES000002NIEHS NIH HHS R01 ES034373
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Bitcoin mines-massive computing clusters generating cryptocurrency tokens-consume vast amounts of electricity. The amount of fine particle (PM

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PMCPMC11537342

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