Bitcoin Emissions Rise After China Ban After China banned bitcoin mining last year, the process has become even more polluting. Most people are now familiar with Bitcoin. Some see cryptocurrency as a good decentralized currency that might replace our physical money in the future. Others don’t see the currency as a means of payment, but as an investment (hopefully) to get rich. But all these currencies do not come out of nowhere. Mining bitcoins emits more and more carbon dioxide, according to research by scientists from the Free University of Amsterdam, among others. They published their study in Joule. Read...