The estimate so far is that the total release from the event is roughly one-sixth of what was released at Chernobyl.

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"Instead of stopping the flow, Enbridge staff twice pumped more oil -- about 81% of the total release -- into the ruptured pipeline, " Hersman said.

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This way, the bitcoin software would release a total of twenty-one million bitcoins, most all of them over the next twenty years.

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