Cryptocurrencies need to get their shit together. It consumes 0.5% of the world's energy today, and consumes 20% more month over month. May 2018: 1/200. Dec 2020: 200/200. Cryptocurrencies need to be banned today. Not tomorrow. Not in a year. Today.https://grist.org/article/bitcoins-energy-use-got-studied-and-you-libertarian-nerds-look-even-worse-than-usual/amp …
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You didn't buy btc when it was cheap and now you are upset, it's understandable.
As if I need more money. I need a stable living environment, drinkable water and breathable air. None of which are guaranteed if we increase our resource consumption.
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Excuse me, but plastic bottles (like the one in your picture) is the most urgent problem right now, killing sea wild life, air pollution, and so on... Further more, with time, computers components are more efficient, and lowering their consumption... You are out.
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Yeah, except even if overnight GPUs become 100x as powerful they buy us a few months at best. Exponential cost functions are a bitch.
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