How Much Pollution Does Bitcoin Mining Really Produce?

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The National Development and Reform Commission has included “cryptocurrency mining” on its list of activities that it is looking to restrict or prohibit. The purported reason is to “clean up the environment” — but the evidence does not back this up.

One of the most common criticisms levied at cryptocurrency mining is that it uses too much energy. Many of taken this to mean that mining Bitcoin (BTC) is, effectively, killing the environment. This is the same rationale used for potentially banning cryptocurrency mining in China — a country with a long history of hostility towards cryptocurrencies — so this argument definitely deserves further scrutiny.

source: https://beincrypto.com/how-much-pollution-does-bitcoin-mining-really-produce/

Do you think Bitcoin has an energy problem? Or is it just a scapegoat?