This is what the Ecological Footprint of Bitcoin, NFTs & Co looks like

May 3, 2022 at 2:05 p.m. cryptocurrencies : This is what the Ecological Footprint of Bitcoin, NFTs & Co looks like The Bitcoin logo (icon image). Photo: AP/Kin Cheung Dusseldorf Cryptocurrencies have been under heavy criticism for some time because large computational capacities are required to process transactions. The electricity needed for this usually comes … Read more

Education – Stuttgart – Kretschmann: longer working hours for teachers in conversation – education

Stuttgart (dpa / lsw) – The Prime Minister of Baden-Württemberg, Winfried Kretschmann (Greens), discussed the extension of working hours for teachers in order to ensure better education in the state. “Maybe we have to work harder,” Kretschmann stressed Monday evening during a round table in the “Stuttgarter Zeitung”. For example, many teachers are women and … Read more

Bitcoin mining – Plattsburgh’s big power consumers

Plattsburgh is a small city located in the far north of upstate New York, just before the Canadian border. About 20,000 people live here. In 2016, Plattsburgh began to attract interest from companies looking to build data centers there. Colin Read thought of Google, Facebook, IBM or a similar company that will certainly create many … Read more