December 8th, 2018 | by Michael Barnard
The high electricity consumption of bitcoin has been widely reported, with one widely reported (and disputed) estimate having it consume at peak more electricity than 159 countries. However, this is a temporary problem with cryptocurrencies including bitcoin, not an immutable feature
November 25th, 2018 | by Michael Barnard
The blockchain and related technologies assessed in the first part of this article, along with the evaluation criteria, are Bitcoin, Ethereum, Ethereum Casper, and Hyperledger
January 15th, 2018 | by Michael Barnard
It's safe to say that cleantech is going to involve blockchain and similar distributed ledger approaches. And it's also safe to say that each of the technologies and approaches represented here have better and worse uses. If someone tells you that the answer is only one of these, then you can be pretty sure that they are enthusiasts, not architects
January 12th, 2018 | by Michael Barnard
All of the hysteria about cryptocurrency energy use is going to go away in the next few months. The bubble will pop for stale assets like bitcoin, places like China will clamp down on wasting electricity on competitive mining, and everybody else will move to variants of proof-of-stake or perhaps IOTA, which seems to dodge the bullet in a different way
