30% Tax on Bitcoin’s Electricity Input is Proposed

Stephen Perrenod
ILLUMINATION
10 min readMar 16, 2023

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And yet Bitcoin’s electricity input is Greener than Tesla’s charging

In this article, I use minting and minters to describe what happens when Bitcoin is created, rather than mining and miners, because it is a more accurate analogy.

Nothing in this article should be construed as investment advice.

No AI software was used in the writing of this article. If it had been, it would have been a one-time use of high-performance computing facilities, with 38% green or nuclear-generated electricity, on

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Stephen Perrenod
ILLUMINATION

supercomputing expert, astrophysicist, technology analyst, orionx.net, author of DarkMatter, DarkEnergy, DarkGravity