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NEW YORK -- U.S. officials this week indefinitely withdrew a survey aimed at gathering information on the crypto-mining industrys power use, hindering attempts to understand the sectors impact on grids

U.S. officials this week indefinitely withdrew a survey aimed at gathering information on the crypto-mining industrys power use, hindering attempts to understand the sectors impact on grids and...

The secretive methods being used in the country show how difficult it will be for regulators across the world, including in the U.S., to police the sector.

An experimental update to Ethereum, the world’s second-biggest cryptocurrency, has led to a dramatic reduction in the energy used to secure the currency and verify transactions

If Bitcoin’s energy consumption can be thought of as a skyscraper, Ethereum’s energy use post-Merge, would be the size of a raspberry, according to University of Cambridge research.