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Quantification of energy and carbon costs for mining cryptocurrencies
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Metadata
- Authors
- Krause, M. J., & Tolaymat, T.
- Venue
- Nature Sustainability
- Published
- 2018-11-05
- Volume
- 1
- Issue
- 11
- Pages
- 711-718
- ISSN
- 2398-9629 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2898441276
- Cited by
- 447
- References
- 19
- FWCI
- 43.39
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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