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Blog — 7 Jul, 2021
Investment in bitcoin creates a dilemma for environmental, social and governance-conscious institutional investors due to the huge amounts of energy the mining process consumes. The bitcoin network’s energy consumption is roughly the same as that of the Netherlands and a large portion of it is powered by coal.
