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The executive summary is that about half of all property crime, by volume and by value, is now online
The Cost of Cybercrime
schneier.com
Cambridge’s Centre for Alternative Finances estimates that bitcoin’s annualised electricity consumption hovers just above 115 terawatt-hours (TWh) while Digiconomist’s closely tracked index puts it closer to 80 TWh. A single transaction of bitcoin has the same carbon footprint as 680,000 Visa transactions or 51,210 hours of watching YouTube, according to the site.
Electricity Needed to Mine Bitcoin Is More Than Used by 'Entire Countries' | Technology | the Guardian
Lauren Aratani
In sum, our busyness:
1. Creates markets for new products and even new industries
2. Increases our spending on palliative measures
3. Generates wealth via interest for lenders
4. Distracts us the public sphere (among many other things…)
Busyness Decoded: How to Limit What You Say “Yes” To
Tara McMullin
...catch up on these, and many more highlights
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