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katakowsj · 2330 days ago · link · · parent · post: Emily Atkin: The Environmental Case Against Bitcoin
Interesting. How does Bitcoin energy usage compare, in relative terms to the energy involved in creating and maintaining a governmental fiat currency? Also, won’t mining come to an end as BTC has a finite # of mineable coins?
ThurberMingus · 2328 days ago · link ·
Mining is how the Bitcoin blockchain continues-it's an essential party of the system. The rewards are new coins + transaction fees, so after the coins are all mined transaction fees will be the whole reward.