Bitcoin mining, which is necessary to validate transactions on the blockchain, requires significant amounts of energy. Critics argue that the energy consumption associated with Bitcoin is unsustainable and contributes to climate change.
what do you think?
But just that many countries still uses unclean energies which are contributing to the climate change, most from goal and also gases from petroleum by-product powered engines and the likes. They are mostly used for other means of making money, not only on bitcoin mining, mostly used in companies for other means.
Clean energy can also be generated which is what the world should move towards, but most developing and underdeveloped nations are still 100% dependent on coal and petroleum engines while many developed nations also still highly dependent on these unclean energies.
It should be about how the world are generating electricity.
This concern will focus on the way of the electricity is generated, The electricity power plant that use coal contribute almost half of world carbon dioxide emissions, so this will be the one of the main contributors to greenhouse gas emissions that cause climate change. I live in a developing country that 62% of electricity plant use coal (as of statistical data at beginning of the second semester, 2022). So, bitcoin mining will contribute climate change if it consumes high ammount of electricity from coal plant especially in a developing countries.