[asfgfsigninoi]

>But unlike say the eternal emacs/vim war, the divisions on this topic are entirely philosophical and about culture instead of technology.

What? My problem with "crypto assets" is that "blockchains" are outperformed by a System/360 while costing billions of dollars to run and drawing about the same power as all datacenters in the world put together. The fact that I like Star Trek is irrelevant.

[AlexandrB]

Indeed. Blockchain tech, at least in its PoW incarnation, seems like a negation of Moore's law. The same operations get slower and less efficient over time.

[asfgfsigninoi]

Every incarnation I've heard of is comparably slow. People claim to have ways to improve efficiency but I haven't heard of anything within three orders of magnitude of performance of the Windows 95 machine rusting in my garage.

[pphysch]

The canonical way to get around the inevitable inefficiency of decentralization at scale is to quietly re-add centralization (ReFi?) and bury it under technical neologisms and benchmarks.

"Look how fast and innovative $cryptocurrency is! I totally didn't just reinvent a centralized payment settlement system."

[setpatchaddress]

This is specifically about NFTs, and not the general environmental problems with cryptocurrency, which exist, but are solvable with known technology.