Bitcoin’s Shifting Footprint
Clamours of circuits compete to complete composite puzzles that compound their complexity. Assuring the security of their concealed networks as they pan for digital gold; virtual pickaxes and crypto sluices slice through implicit permutations, impervious to the rust and dust of distant placer mining. Straining against the intricacy of their imagined interpretations, giant fans wick corporeal sweat from digital brow; caught in a goldrush of simulated exchange. Steaming from the excesses of their exertions, unseen miners shift to cooler climes; their footsteps gently muffled by the efficacy of their implements. Bitcoin – a form of cryptocurrency or digital currency. This poem is inspired by recent research, which has estimated the past and future environmental impacts of Bitcoin mining, finding it to be lower than previously thought. Bitcoin, often described as a cryptocurrency or a