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#Bitcoin Mining green!?

40% of Bitcoin Mining is located in one chinese particular Region called Shichuan, consuming ~25 TWh/y of (hydro)electricity.

Surprisingly authorities encouraged mining operations to help consume excessive hydroelectricity: 9.2TWh/y are still *unused*
Let's go even further: is Bitcoin an ecological catalyst? A: very probable.

Thanks to #bitcoin mining industry developement, are these kind of limitations lifted since then?

"Sichuan Limits Small and Medium Hydropower Construction" - powermag.com/sichuan-limits… (published in 2016)
Can't wait @DigiEconomist to build the "world wasted hydroelectricity production country index", watching it growing faster each year and exceeding the "bitcoin consumption country index" by a large margin.

Just for intellectual fairness.

And less for headlines.
Source for the 9.2TWh wasted of hydroelectric production:

"Data shows that Sichuan has abandoned 9.2 billion kilowatt-hours (9.2TWh) of hydroelectricity in 2019"

news.8btc.com/chinas-sichuan…
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