By: Tim Daiss
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Bitcoin “mining,” the little-understood course of of making new digital cash by fixing extraordinarily sophisticated math issues that confirm cryptocurrency transactions, has turn into so astonishingly energy-intensive that their huge power farms are starting to generate vital environmental issues, based on essential stories revealed …