• Zwiebel@feddit.org
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    15 days ago

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

    • ilovepiracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      15 days ago

      You’re so right, environmental impact has not been assessed by any cryptocurrency ever made. Literally zilch. None. Nada.

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        15 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.

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      15 days ago

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