In this paper, we critique ICT's current and projected climate impacts. Peer-reviewed studies
estimate ICT's current share of global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions at 1.8%–2.8% of …

The nonfungible token (NFT) marketplace spiked in the recent past. The concept originated
initially as a token standard of Ethereum, an open-source blockchain with smart contract …

AI is undergoing a paradigm shift with the rise of models (eg, BERT, DALL-E, GPT-3) that are
trained on broad data at scale and are adaptable to a wide range of downstream tasks. We …

In the recent years, the concerns raised by environmentalists, over the excessive usage of
electricity, particularly in the mining of cryptocurrencies, have caught the attention of the …

The objective of this study is to provide an overview of Blockchain technology and Industry
4.0 for advancing supply chains towards sustainability. First, extracted from the existing …

Traceability can be referred to as the ability to track and trace information. Application of
traceability can create transparency in supply chains. Conventionally available, centralized …

Is clean energy a safe haven for cryptocurrencies, or vice versa? In this paper, we
investigate the hedge and safe haven property of a wide range of clean energy indices …

In the recent years, fintech industry of the fourth industrial revolution has grown multifold,
which raised the concerns of scholars over the excessive usage of electricity. This paper …

Bitcoin's increasing energy consumption has triggered a passionate debate about the
sustainability of the digital currency. And yet, most studies have thus far ignored that Bitcoin …

When talking about blockchain technology in academia, business, and society, frequently
generalizations are still heared about its–supposedly inherent–enormous energy …