Decarbonizing Bitcoin: Law and policy choices for reducing the energy consumption of Blockchain technologies and digital currencies

@article{Truby2018DecarbonizingBL,
  title={Decarbonizing Bitcoin: Law and policy choices for reducing the energy consumption of Blockchain technologies and digital currencies},
  author={Jon Mark Truby},
  journal={Energy Research \& Social Science},
  year={2018},
  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:169818485}
}
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