Bitcoin's wild ride renews worries about its massive carbon footprint

cnbc2021-02-05

KEY POINTS Bitcoin has a carbon footprint comparable to that of New Zealand, producing 36.95 megatons of CO2 annually, according to Digiconomist. The cryptocurrency consumes more electricity than the...

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A key incentive of bitcoin’s model, known as “proof of work,” is the promise of being rewarded in some bitcoin if you manage to solve the complex hashing algorithm.\n“The issue is, it can never get better by design,” says Hoskinson, who now runs IOHK, a blockchain firm that developed another digital token called cardano.\n“The more successful bitcoin gets, the higher the price goes; the higher the price goes, the more competition for bitcoin; and thus the more energy is expended to mine.”\nCardano and some other digital coins rely on a “proof of stake” consensus mechanism, where participants buy tokens which allow them to join the network. Hoskinson says the cardano cryptocurrency network consumes only 6 GWh of power, a tiny fraction of bitcoin’s energy consumption. Similar proof-of-stake tokens include polkadot and algorand, he added.\nRauchs said bitcoin is only likely to consume more and more electricity over time due to its proof of work mechanism.\n“It doesn’t really matter whether there are new, more efficient machines on the market,” Rauchs said. “You will just use more and more machines but the total electricity consumption won’t go down based off of that.”\nA key measure of bitcoin’s mining difficultyhit an all-time highlast month. With bitcoin rising in price,revenue to miners is also increasing, incentivizing more participants to mine the cryptocurrency.\nThe counterargument\nNevertheless, bitcoin believers argue that disputes about its environmental impact are missing the point.\n“Energy use in itself is not bad,” Meltem Demirors, chief strategy officer of digital asset management firm CoinShares, told CNBC. “Sending and storing emails uses energy. Yet, we don’t infer email to be bad because it consumes energy.”\n“What we have here is people trying to decide what is or is not a good use of energy, and bitcoin is incredibly transparent in its energy use while other industries are much more opaque.”\nDemirors questioned why the banking industry, for instance, wasn’t under more scrutiny for its energy usage. She said bitcoin miners were “incentivized to use renewables” because it’s getting cheaper to produce it.\nBut most bitcoin mining facilities are located in China, which is still heavily reliant on coal-based power. Though the Chinese province of Sichuan is known to attract miners due to its cheap electricity and rich hydropower resources, the level of power generation capacity fluctuates depending on the season.\nThen there’s the question of how bitcoin is used. Many investors today consider bitcoin to be a form of “digital gold” rather than an efficient payment system — Digiconomist estimates that the energy footprint of one bitcoin transaction is equivalent to 100,000 payments on theVisanetwork.\nThe cryptocurrency more than quadrupled in value last year and is up another 27% so far this year,according to Coin Metrics, currently trading at about $37,189.\nAndrew Hatton, head of IT at Greenpeace U.K., said the larger issue at hand is that “we’re largely powering 21st-century technology with 19th-century energy sources.”\n“Bitcoin’s spiralling energy usage is largely down to the huge amount of data-crunching needed to create and maintain this cyber-currency,” Hatton told CNBC. “But their fast-growing hunger for electricity is just an early symptom of a much bigger problem to come.”\n“As online services become bigger and more complex, the demand for computing power is bound to go up over the next few years, and that will require more energy,” 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