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ForkLog 55 23.09.2025

Nvidia Commits $100 Billion to OpenAI Partnership

Nvidia Corporation and OpenAI have signed a memorandum of strategic partnership with a total investment of up to $100 billion.

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ForkLog 173 03.07.2025

Silicon Tanks: Nancy Fraser’s feminist view of digital capitalism

“Silicon Tanks” is a ForkLog series profiling the intellectuals, scholars and visionaries who, in our view, have shaped the internet and digital finance—or, conversely, have subjected them to critique. The subject of today’s piece is the philosopher Nancy Fraser, who coined the concept of “cannibal capitalism” to describe the link between technological progress, Big Tech, […]

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ForkLog 20 25.06.2025

Robonomics Deploys Web3 Air Quality Sensors on Thailand’s Hippie Island

The Robonomics team has installed and connected the first two air quality sensors to the Web3 cloud on the island of Phangan, Thailand. This was reported to ForkLog by the project’s architect, Sergey Lonshakov. The First Altruists on the hippie Island of Phangan!Together with the local community, we’re exploring how to build an environmental monitoring […]

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ForkLog 20 11.06.2025

Technological ambitions in environmental hell

Bangladesh is among the world’s most densely populated countries, and its environmental situation is dire. As officials in Dhaka tout digitisation and AI, outside are poisoned rivers, stripped forests and pervasive poverty. ForkLog examines how the country is trying to reconcile its push for innovation with a deepening ecological crisis. A country of contrasts On […]

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ForkLog 70 29.04.2025

CCAF finds Bitcoin miners increasingly using cleaner energy

The share of sustainable energy in Bitcoin mining has reached 52.4%, up from 37.6% in 2022, according to a report by the Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance (CCAF). Of that, 42.6% comes from renewables and 9.8% from nuclear. The share of natural gas rose from 25% to 38.2%, while coal fell from 36.6% to 8.9%. […]

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ForkLog 76 25.04.2025

Arkansas Residents Succeed in Blocking Bitcoin Mining Facility

The Vilonia City Planning Commission in Arkansas, USA, unanimously rejected a proposal to establish a cryptocurrency mining facility within its jurisdiction. The decision followed several weeks of protests by residents of the town, which has a population of just over 2,000 people. Residents expressed concerns about potential issues with internet and power supply, but the […]

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ForkLog 17 14.04.2025

Bitcoin Miners in the US Accused of Air Pollution with Particulates

Approximately 1.9 million Americans have been exposed to increased air pollution from fine particulates caused by Bitcoin mining, according to a study published in Nature Communications. A team of scientists led by Francesca Dominici from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health found that the most affected states were: New York; Texas (northeast and […]

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ForkLog 42 02.04.2025

US Senator Proposes Support for Eco-Friendly Bitcoin Mining

US Senator Ted Cruz from Texas has introduced a bill aimed at utilizing energy resource extraction waste for mining the first cryptocurrency. My legislation, the FLARE Act, incentivizes entrepreneurs and crypto miners to utilize natural gas that would otherwise be stranded. https://t.co/fvb1nog3ix pic.twitter.com/8uCWtyOY29 — Senator Ted Cruz (@SenTedCruz) April 1, 2025 The “Facilitating Large-scale Access […]

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ForkLog 22 15.12.2024

Greenpeace Halts Anti-Bitcoin Mining Campaign

The environmental organization GreenpeaceUSA has quietly concluded its “Change the Code” campaign aimed at combating pollution from cryptocurrency mining. This was reported by Bitcoin researcher Daniel Batten. According to his observations, the environmentalists have not released new press statements or posts for over six months. The X account (@cleanupbitcoin) has been inactive since January 2024. […]

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ForkLog 37 22.11.2024

Web3Eco Tokenizes Trees in Uzbekistan

Web3Eco has tokenized the rights to profits from the sale of trees from plantations in Uzbekistan. The platform is built on the Polygon network and employs the ERC-1155 standard for tokens, each representing between one and 600 trees, depending on the denomination. Digital rights to the trees are sold exclusively on the Web3Eco platform for […]

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ForkLog 6 12.09.2024

Blockchain Startup by Former WeWork Chief to Refund Investors

Flowcarbon, the blockchain startup founded by former WeWork head Adam Neumann, has quietly begun refunding investors, according to Forbes. Flowcarbon focuses on creating a carbon credit market using distributed ledger technology. Most of these instruments are sold through brokers or the issuers themselves. Many critics argue that the process is complex and opaque. The startup […]

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ForkLog 14 16.08.2024

IMF Proposes 85% Global Energy Tariff Increase for Bitcoin Miners

Raising electricity costs for miners worldwide by 85% through taxation could significantly reduce carbon emissions, according to experts from the IMF. Shafik Hebous from the Fiscal Affairs Department and climate policy economist Nate Vernon-Lin noted that cryptocurrency mining and data centers could account for up to 3.5% of global energy consumption by 2025. This is […]

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