look heres annual e-waste is estimated to be about 30 metric tons as of May 2021, which is comparabe to the small IT equipment waste produced by the Netherlands. The average lifespan of Bitcoin mining devices is estimated to be only 1.29 years. Other estimates assume that a Bitcoin transaction generates about 380g of e-waste, equivalent of 2.35 iPhones. One reason for the e-waste problem of bitcoinczechia.com Bitcoin is that unlike most computing hardware the used application-specific integrated circuits have no alternative use beyond Bitcoin mining.
