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The Poetry of Science

The Poetry of Science

Science:Social Sciences

Episode 26: Bitcoin’s Shifting Footprint

Episode 26: Bitcoin’s Shifting Footprint

2019-12-02
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This episode explores new research which has found that the environmental impacts of Bitcoin mining might be lower than previously thought.

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Read this episode’s science poem here.  

Read the scientific study that inspired it here. 

Read ‘Miners’ by Wilfred Owen here.

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Music by Rufus Beckett.

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