It’s that time of year folks!

Our current approximate percentage of renewable power generation in the Bitcoin mining energy mix stands at 74.1%, more than four times more renewable usage than the global average energy mix

As always, we remain cognisant of the brutal time pressures exerted on our beloved readers by the realities of modern life, so in the spirit of the internet age we have condensed our main findings in a convenient and accessible TL;DR version:

Also, for those of you who are just arriving to the mining discussion — in this iteration we have skipped the introductory treatments of mining and Proof-of-Work on a conceptual level and instead refer readers to our previous work here and here .

As always we do recommend reading the full report which can be found in all its un-summarised glory here.

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