Degustibus, I read to the end of the thread to see if anyone had posted that article, but everyone seems to have ignored you.
Just to remind those who are whopping about price rises on their bitcoins etc, just remember what you're doing to the environment:
Quotes from the article:
"Simply put, bitcoin is slowing the effort to achieve a rapid transition away from fossil fuels. What’s more, this is just the beginning. Given its rapidly growing climate footprint, bitcoin is a malignant development, and it’s getting worse."
"Today, each bitcoin transaction requires the same amount of energy used to power nine homes in the U.S. for one day. And miners are constantly installing more and faster computers. Already, the aggregate computing power of the bitcoin network is nearly 100,000 times larger than the world’s 500 fastest supercomputers combined.
The total energy use of this web of hardware is huge — an estimated 31 terawatt-hours per year. More than 150 individual countries in the world consume less energy annually. And that power-hungry network is currently increasing its energy use every day by about 450 gigawatt-hours, roughly the same amount of electricity the entire country of Haiti uses in a year."
Full article here: grist.org/article/bitcoin-could-cost-us-our-clean-energy-future/
I try to be 'green' if I can, like most people I guess, (I still fly when I'm going on holiday!), but there's no way I'd invest in Bitcoin for simply this reason.