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  •   Home > News > Business

    Mother nature is benefiting from the "crypto winter"

    Mother nature is benefiting from the "crypto winter"


    Data from Digiconomist suggests the amount of electricity consumed by cryptocurrencies has dropped by a third since the start of June.

    It's down to an estimated 132 teraWatt-hours a year -- about the same as Argentina's annual electricity consumption.

    © 2026 Newstalk ZB, NZCity

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