Paypal and Venmo are now trading in proof-of-work cryptocurrency. The virus is now fully normalized, and there is nothing now to stop its climate change contribution from growing without bound.
It is necessary to pass laws to stop use of proof-of-work cryptocurrency— now.
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Square and CashApp are doing it as well, including that whole new "myths" site where they try to trump up environmental concerns as myths that don't apply
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It's not really the same because they allow you to withdraw Bitcoin instead of it existing purely as a way to speculate on the price like PayPal.
Am I correct, above, that Venmo is doing it the Paypal way instead of the Square/CashApp way?
I mean, sure, but they're still enabling crypto payments and I very, very much wish they wouldn't. Whether you can withdraw as crypto or not, they're still adding transactions to the block chain and causing everyone to pay that energy cost
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Transferring around Bitcoin with PayPal doesn't result in any on-chain transactions. The only on-chain transactions would be them buying and selling it in bulk to grow or shrink their reserves as needed. They don't need any significant amount of transactions for what they do.
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