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by vmception 1723 days ago
Proof of Work (POW) solutions can be equally deployed on other consensus protocols that don't have unbounded energy demands, given the ways the platforms function. Proof of Stake (POS), Delegated Proof of Stake (DPOS), etc.

There should be standardized education in this field if standards communities themselves can be so reactionary, equally missing that decentralized identifiers have nothing to do with blockchain, and even if they did that they have nothing to do with POW.
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user-the-name 1723 days ago
As usual with blockchain promotion, the word "can" is doing a whole lot of heavy lifting in that sentence.
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vmception 1723 days ago
It is database state consensus acknowledgment, not blockchain promotion.

If you deploy a development environment where certain functions can run, it doesn't matter if the underlying hardware is using 1% of global emissions, or a couple households worth. This post is acknowledging that the "nearly none at all solutions exist" and are good enough for some purposes, while also acknowledging that it is weird that a standards committee did not acknowledge them but reacted to the global emissions one.

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