The environmental impact of blockchains (Webinar)

work in progress : https://www.speare.com/doc/4c4301e9-6b4c-47cd-887e-f16b6076a163

Technology overview

Type of blockchains

Technological constraints & functioning

Environmental Impact

Impact types

  • Energy consumption (fossil energy? nuclear? …)
  • Rare minerals

Impact sources

  • Running the nodes + Consensus algo (PoW / PoStake / PoSpace / etC.)
  • Network comunication (% of inefficiency?)
  • Storage of blockchain

What measures, studies & analysis say

  • For blockchains (in general) ?
  • The case of Bitcoin ?
  • The case of Ethereum ?
  • Other coins/chains ?

Conclusions

Technical evolutions ?

What can we change ? (as users / adopters)

References

Unsorted

  • Daniel Larimer. Bitshares – Delegated Proof-of-Stake Consensus

Academic

Official & Institutional

Organizations, Projects & Whitepapers

News, Blogs, vlogs, podcasts