The Local Denmark https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Denmark in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed Mining bitcoin uses more energy than Denmark: study Extracting a dollar's worth of cryptocurrency such as bitcoin from the deep Web consumes three times more energy than digging up a dollar's worth of gold, researchers said Monday. https://www.thelocal.dk/20181106/mining-bitcoin-uses-more-energy-than-denmark-study Tue, 06 Nov 2018 10:15:52 +0100 mining-bitcoin-uses-more-energy-than-denmark-study Danish police first to use bitcoin to jail drug traffickers Danish police have become the first in the world to hunt down internet drug traffickers by analysing their bitcoin transactions. https://www.thelocal.dk/20170222/danish-police-first-to-use-bitcoin-to-trace-traffickers Wed, 22 Feb 2017 10:54:28 +0100 danish-police-first-to-use-bitcoin-to-trace-traffickers