# Environment

`kaal:entity:environment`

**Status.** derived

This node is assembled mechanically from the 2 claims that carry the concept tag `environment`. It is a roster of what the corpus says under this term. It is **not** an adjudicated definition: no single statement here has been ruled canonical, and no first-appearance call has been made. Read the claims and judge for yourself.

## Every claim under this term

2 claims across 2 works, 2020 to 2021.

**2020**

- [3709041-031](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3709041-031) [empirical/evidenced] -- In the author's dataset, the overwhelming majority of blockchain for good projects cluster in healthcare, exchanges, environmental protection, and charities.
  > The data suggest that the overwhelming majority of projects in the blockchain for good context are in healthcare, exchanges and in the environmental protection sectors, as well as charities.
  Kaal, Blockchain Technology for Good (2020). SSRN: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3709041

**2021**

- [3782198-031](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3782198-031) [empirical/evidenced] *(failure mode)* -- Proof of work consensus is energetically wasteful because the entire global network redundantly computes wrong nonces, with the Bitcoin network consuming as much energy as the country of the Czech Republic.
  > The Bitcoin network is performing about #)!% =K55,555,555,555,555,555,555 hashes every second in June )5)5. That requires as much energy as the entire country of the Czech Republic.
  Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, Contemporary Decentralization (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3782198

## Verify

Every claim above resolves to a record carrying a verbatim source quote, the sha256 of the source PDF, and a preformatted citation. Nothing here asks to be taken on trust.

    curl -s https://wulfkaal.github.io/entities/environment.md | sha256sum

**Canonical form.** This markdown file is the canonical hashed representation of this entity node. Its sha256 is the content hash.