Computational parasites and hydropower: A political ecology of Bitcoin mining on the Columbia River

Nick Lally; Kelly Kay; Jim Thatcher

doi:10.1177/2514848619867608

Computational parasites and hydropower: A political ecology of Bitcoin mining on the Columbia River

Nick Lally
, Kelly Kay
, Jim Thatcher

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Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	18-38
Journal	ENVIRONMENT AND PLANNING E-NATURE AND SPACE
Volume	5
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1177/2514848619867608
State	Published - Mar 2022

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Bitcoin
resource extraction
materiality
algorithms
Columbia River

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