What is the environmental impact of crypto?
Lacking an unambiguous answer to crypto's environmental impact, NGRAVE reframes the question to "What is the environmental impact of PoW crypto mining?"; the most energy-intensive consensus mechanism.
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- Reframing crypto’s environmental impact
- Objectively measuring the environmental impact of PoW
- Analysing the available data on PoW mining energy consumption
- Accounting for the inefficiency of energy consumption
- What is a justified source of carbon?
- Finding a progressive way forward - adversarial collaboration
- The Crypto Mining Debate - Another Culture War
Ruben is a repeat tech entrepreneur. His focus is on digital asset security and financial empowerment. He is co-founder and CEO of NGRAVE, the creator of “ZERO” - the world’s most secure hardware wallet for crypto storage. In 2021, he was selected for Belgium’s 40 under 40. Before that, he was a finalist in scale-ups.eu’s Disruptive Innovator of the Year 2020 Award, and nominated in Google/PWC/Trends’ Digital Pioneer 2020.