Mining for the Future: The Environmental Impact of Cryptocurrency
The world has been abuzz with the emergence of cryptocurrency and its growing popularity over the last decade. Cryptocurrency, an internet-based medium of exchange, is a decentralized digital asset that is secured and maintained by a blockchain technology. Even though cryptocurrency has many advantages, it also has an environmental cost—cryptocurrency mining. Mining is the process used to add transaction records to the public ledger of a cryptocurrency, also known as…