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Bitcoin may soon consume more power than Australia — almost 10 times more than Google, Microsoft and Facebook combined ABC Business 4 days ago By Ben Deacon Bitcoin has a climate problem. The cryptocurrency uses huge quantities of electricity and as the price of a single Bitcoin has skyrocketed beyond $50,000, Bitcoin miners are now producing as much carbon pollution as a medium-sized nation. "Bitcoin uses more electricity per transaction than any other method known to mankind," said Microsoft founder Bill Gates, when he on social media platform Clubhouse. "It's not a grea...

Scottish art sells best in Scotland Alberto Morocco R.S.A., R.S.W., R.P., R.G.I., L.L.D (Scottish 1917-1999), The Harbour at Camogli. EDINBURGH .- A private collection of Scottish paintings received the ‘white glove’ treatment at Lyon & Turnbull in Edinburgh on February 25. The sale of 75 works offered under the banner A Celtic Vision was 100% sold with the total doubling the pre-sale estimate. Nick Curnow, Head of Scottish Art at Lyon & Turnbull commented: “Our vendor is delighted. The level of interest from bidders was thrilling and some of the sums paid were in excess of retail. It sho...

Died: January 22, 2021. IT was 1993, and considerable interest was stirring in the world of Scottish art: the world-renowned David Hockney would, for the first time, be exhibiting his paintings in this country. The venue was the William Hardie Gallery at 141 West Regent Street, Glasgow. In 1992 Hardie had begun accompanying his friend John Cox, Scottish Opera’s artistic director, to Los Angeles to meet Hockney, Cox having engaged the artist to design the sets and costumes for a Covent Garden production of Richard Strauss’s Die Frau Ohne Schatten. Hardie and Hockney got to know eac...

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The term “art critic” implies a negativity which by and large doesn’t exist in the writers who sally forth into the art world to create vivid pen portraits of the art they see and the artists they meet. Art critics tend to be art lovers. Not fighters. So it was with the late W Gordon Smith. Smith wrote about art for the likes of Visual Arts Scotland and Scotland on Sunday in an accessible and upbeat fashion from 1980 until his death in 1996. But writing was just one of the many strings Smith had to his creative bow. Author, poet, dramatist and photographer, he was also a prolific an...