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Record W4318460119 · doi:10.54097/hset.v26i.3639

Environmental Consequences of Mining Bitcoin: The Carbon Emission in China

2022· article· en· W4318460119 on OpenAlexaff
Bolun Xie

Bibliographic record

VenueHighlights in Science Engineering and Technology · 2022
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldComputer Science
TopicBlockchain Technology Applications and Security
Canadian institutionsUniversity of British Columbia
Fundersnot available
KeywordsGreenhouse gasCryptocurrencyGovernment (linguistics)ChinaFocus (optics)ElectricityNatural resource economicsCarbon creditEnvironmental economicsBusinessComputer scienceComputer securityEngineeringEconomicsLawPolitical scienceGeology

Abstract

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In recent years, as cryptocurrency has been recognized by more people and the value of the cryptocurrency has increased, many people make money through mining. It leads to mining becoming popular but also creates serious environmental problems. Mining bitcoin will consume much electricity and thus emits more greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide, which has caused worldwide environmental issues. This paper will focus on figuring out that mining bitcoin will cause how much carbon emission damage in China during these years. The result of this research will provide the change in carbon emission with time and the prediction of the carbon emission trend caused by bitcoin mining in the future. This result of the article aims to focus the society and the government's attention on the damage mining bitcoin does to the environment and also provide suggestions on the measures the governments should take to reduce the unessential energy cost of bitcoin mining.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: Observational
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.126
Threshold uncertainty score0.251

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0020.003
Science and technology studies0.0010.001
Scholarly communication0.0010.001
Open science0.0000.001
Research integrity0.0010.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0010.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.004
GPT teacher head0.189
Teacher spread0.185 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designObservational
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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