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The anti-virus developer prevented between 700 and 3000 tonnes of CO2 emissions.
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The majority of illegal crypto mining activities are performed using cryptojacking.
Kaspersky has released data regarding the environmental impact of blocking crypto miners. The anti-virus developer stopped over 200 million attempts at illegal crypto mining. In this process almost 3000 tons of CO2 emissions into the atmosphere in 2022 were prevented.
Crypto mining is the method of validating the processed transaction and minting a new token in exchange for validating the blocks and transaction. As per Kaspersky, Bitcoin generation requires as much energy as Sweden consumes annually. Increasing power prices are believed to fuel illegal mining and crypto-jacking.
Kaspersky introduced a unique methodology in 2019 that enables users and businesses to assess the consequences of illegal mining on the environment. In 2022 Kaspersky prevented 202,540,954 attempts by hijacker
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