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| | ''Environmental policy''. |
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| Bitcoin is a digital currency that is created, and effectively administered without recourse to a central bank or other central authority.
| | Key component of national and international attempts to reduce the increase in concentrations of greenhouse gases. |
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| It was launched in 2009.
| | One carbon credit is the right to emit one tonne of carbon dioxide (CO<sub>2</sub>). |
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| Bitcoin is sometimes abbreviated to 'BC', rather than BTC.
| | == See also == |
| | * [[Cap and trade]] |
| | * [[Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism]] |
| | * [[Carbon footprint]] |
| | * [[Carbon tax]] |
| | * [[Carbon trading]] |
| | * [[Net zero]] |
| | * [[Streamlined Energy and Carbon Reporting]] |
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| :<span style="color:#4B0082">'''''Environmental costs & macroeconomic instability'''''</span>
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| :"From 7 September 2021 bitcoin [became] legal tender in El Salvador despite warnings from the IMF and the World Bank citing the potential impact on macroeconomic stability and bitcoin’s environmental costs."
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| :''Association of Corporate Treasurers - Update on the Payments landscape - September 2021.''
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| ==See also==
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| * [[Altcoin]]
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| *[[Bit]]
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| *[[Blockchain]]
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| *[[Britcoin]]
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| * [[Blockchain Governance Initiative Network]] (BGIN)
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| * [[Centralised finance]]
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| * [[Coin]]
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| * [[Crypto-assets]]
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| * [[Cryptocurrency]]
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| * [[Daisy chain]]
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| * [[Data]]
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| * [[Database]]
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| * [[Decentralised finance]] (DeFi)
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| * [[Digital asset]]
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| * [[Digital currency]]
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| * [[Distributed ledger]]
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| * [[ekrona]]
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| * [[Ether]]
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| * [[Ethereum]]
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| * [[Fintech]]
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| * [[Layer 1 network]]
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| * [[Layer 2 network]]
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| * [[Non-fungible token]]
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| * [[Payments and payment systems]]
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| * [[Platform]]
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| * [[Ripple payment protocol]]
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| * [[Smart contract]]
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| * [[Stablecoin]]
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| * [[SWIFT gpi]]
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| * [[Token]]
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| * [[TradFi]]
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| ===Other resources===
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| *[http://www.chicagofed.org/digital_assets/publications/chicago_fed_letter/2013/cfldecember2013_317.pdf?goback=%2Egde_1799642_member_5805378057078321153#%21 Bitcoin: a primer, Chicago Fed Dec 2013]
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| * [https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/research/digital-currencies Bank of England - Digital currencies]
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