oplkill@lemmy.world to memes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 15 days agoThen they will ask why nobody wants to use their payment cardslemmy.worldexternal-linkmessage-square215fedilinkarrow-up181arrow-down113
arrow-up168arrow-down1external-linkThen they will ask why nobody wants to use their payment cardslemmy.worldoplkill@lemmy.world to memes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 15 days agomessage-square215fedilink
minus-squareZwiebel@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down2·15 days agoI’m glad we’re spending the equivalent of a couple dozen million households of electricity on it
minus-squareilovepiracy@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down1·15 days agoYou’re so right, environmental impact has not been assessed by any cryptocurrency ever made. Literally zilch. None. Nada.
minus-squareEugene V. Debs' Ghost@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down1·15 days agoLet’s not ask how much power Visa and MasterCard use for their global monopoly.
minus-squareBleys@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·edit-215 days agoLiterally orders of magnitude less? Are you not familiar with how proof of work crypto operates? Being energy inefficient is the whole point.
minus-squareinfinitesunrise@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down3·edit-215 days agoMeanwhile the US military’s energy budget eclipses global crypto mining essentially to maintain petrodollar dominance and American residents pay for it.
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.
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.
Meanwhile the US military’s energy budget eclipses global crypto mining essentially to maintain petrodollar dominance and American residents pay for it.