oplkill@lemmy.world to memes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 months agoThen they will ask why nobody wants to use their payment cardslemmy.worldimagemessage-square313linkfedilinkarrow-up1325arrow-down188
arrow-up1237arrow-down1imageThen they will ask why nobody wants to use their payment cardslemmy.worldoplkill@lemmy.world to memes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 months agomessage-square313linkfedilink
minus-squareLena@gregtech.eulinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5arrow-down1·3 months agoBitcoin is pretty old, newer cryptocurrencies are more efficient.
minus-squareZwiebel@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12arrow-down3·3 months agoI’m glad we’re spending the equivalent of a couple dozen million households of electricity on it
minus-squareilovepiracy@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down5·3 months agoYou’re so right, environmental impact has not been assessed by any cryptocurrency ever made. Literally zilch. None. Nada.
minus-squareinfinitesunrise@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down9·3 months agoMeanwhile the US military’s energy budget eclipses global crypto mining essentially to maintain petrodollar dominance and American residents pay for it.
minus-squareEugene V. Debs' Ghost@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down9·3 months agoLet’s not ask how much power Visa and MasterCard use for their global monopoly.
minus-squareBleys@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up14·3 months agoLiterally orders of magnitude less? Are you not familiar with how proof of work crypto operates? Being energy inefficient is the whole point.
Bitcoin is pretty old, newer cryptocurrencies are more efficient.
I’m glad we’re spending the equivalent of a couple dozen million households of electricity on it
You’re so right, environmental impact has not been assessed by any cryptocurrency ever made. Literally zilch. None. Nada.
Meanwhile the US military’s energy budget eclipses global crypto mining essentially to maintain petrodollar dominance and American residents pay for it.
Let’s not ask how much power Visa and MasterCard use for their global monopoly.
Literally orders of magnitude less? Are you not familiar with how proof of work crypto operates? Being energy inefficient is the whole point.