Back in April, Bloomberg's Mark Gimein gave us some food for thought when he did some math that proved that Bitcoin is destroying the planet. Well, not quite. But apparently 24 hours of mining the cryptocurrency equates to around $147,000 of electricity. That's a lot of trees being felled somewhere to make some easy money.
Now, a new cryptocurrency wants to try to upend that trend and use mining to make the world a better place. Or at least a cleaner one.
"It'll be mined by real-world actions," Brooklyn-based Emrals creator Sean Auriti told Motherboard. More specifically, it can be mined by throwing garbage in a public trash can. Sounds like a no-brainer, but you'll have to give up some personal details to achieve this.
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