Elon Musk Is Right, Bitcoin Is Terrible for the Environment

The digital gold rush is fueling climate change

Tom Stevenson
Climate Conscious
Published in
7 min readMay 21, 2021

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It’s not often I agree with Elon Musk, but his opinion on the environmental impact of bitcoin is something I see eye-to-eye with him on.

If you don’t know what bitcoin is, it’s a decentralised digital currency without a central bank or entity overseeing it…

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