• Lena@gregtech.eu
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    6 days ago

    Bitcoin is pretty old, newer cryptocurrencies are more efficient.

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      6 days ago

      I’m glad we’re spending the equivalent of a couple dozen million households of electricity on it

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          5 days ago

          Literally orders of magnitude less? Are you not familiar with how proof of work crypto operates? Being energy inefficient is the whole point.

      • ilovepiracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        You’re so right, environmental impact has not been assessed by any cryptocurrency ever made. Literally zilch. None. Nada.

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            No, and I never stated that. I just think it’s stupid to group all of crypto as an environmentally unsustainable technology. Following your logic, switching to electric cars isn’t worth it because the 100 years of petroleum pollution won’t disappear.

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        Meanwhile the US military’s energy budget eclipses global crypto mining essentially to maintain petrodollar dominance and American residents pay for it.