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Greening Bitcoin? Why carbon offsetting may be the best approach to mitigating the environmental costs of cryptocurrencies

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Greening Bitcoin? Why carbon offsetting may be the best approach to mitigating the environmental costs of cryptocurrencies

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Article URL: https://journals.plos.org/sustainabilitytransformation/article?id=10.1371/journal.pstr.0000002   

Article Title: Are carbon offsets the key to green cryptocurrencies?

Author Countries: Singapore

Funding: This work was supported by the NUS Graduate Research Scholarship Award. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.


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