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As a result of the coordinated efforts of chain developers and billionaire Elon Musk, the annual carbon emissions of Dogecoin decreased by around a quarter in 2022, making the meme token one of the quickest crypto assets at reducing carbon discharge.
According to a recent research by foreign currency data aggregator Forex Suggest, Dogecoin is currently the third-fastest digital asset in terms of reducing its carbon footprint, having slashed its emissions by 25% in 2022. In 2022, the blockchain released 1063 tonnes of CO2, up from 1421 tonnes last year.
While the etheum experienced the largest decrease in CO2 emissions in 2022 after the transition to a consensual mechanism to demonstrate the stakes, its annual emissions were 8.3 times greater than those of the Dogecoin.
The annual electricity consumption of the Dogecoin network has diminished to 1.416.731. 2018 kWh from 1897990 onwards. kWh in 2021, according to statistics from Forex Suggest, which has evaluated the global impact of crypto trading on carbon emissions.
Dogecoin And Elon Musk Team Up
Musk stated in May 2021 that he was working with Dogecoin developers to increase the system’s transaction processing efficiency.
During this period, Dogecoin supplied 10,544,431 transactions, using 0.12 thousand kilowatt-hours (kwh) of energy per transaction, while in 2022 it supplied 11,806,084 transactions without requiring one Kilowatt hours per transaction.
Musc elongated and dogecoin. Image: Getty Images
Musk also said in 2021 that his electric vehicle firm, Tesla, will stop accepting Bitcoin payments (BTC), citing environmental issues related to Bitcoin mining.
Furthermore, in December 2021, he suggested that Dogecoin is a better alternative to payment through CTA. The following day, he announced that Tesla will start taking doge to buy goods.
Ban musk from the list of the world's richest people, with a net worth of nearly $120 billion. Musk was the co-founder of the SpaceX rocket company.
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Bitcoin Cash (BCH), a hard fork of BTC, is the second crypto currency that is exceeding Dogecoin in terms of how quickly it reduces the environmental impact.
Bitcoin has been tracked in terms of carbon emissions through polygone and bch. BCH operates on 18.96. KWh for each transaction and Polygon for 90.18. kWh per transaction.
On Global Adoption & Goin Green
Dogecoin is a digital currency that was invented as a “joke” by software engineers Billy Markus and Jackson Palmer.
In its early years, the currency itself did not undergo numerous technological developments. Among the leading meme currencies, it is the only evidence of blockchain work (pow).
DOGE total market cap at $11.6 billion on the weekend chart | Chart: TradingView.comAs of the time of writing, DOGE is trading at $0.0871, up 3.5% over the past week, according to data provided by Coingecko.
Meanwhile, several major organizations that have been critical of cryptocurrencies have highlighted the energy-consuming nature of crypto transactions and mining as contributing factors to indifference.
As cryptocurrencies become more sustainable, it is expected that global usage will increase.
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