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by vmception 1655 days ago
yes, they deployed it on mainnet Ethereum, they could also deploy it on non Proof of Work platforms that use the Ethereum Virtual Machine, their wish was to display it on the NFT marketplace Opensea, which currently reads data from Ethereum mainnet and Polygon mainnet so they have two choices.

to answer the more facetious but concerned prior poster, blocks use energy no matter how many transactions are involved, so the existence of the transaction itself was not a meaningful contributor to the energy use. completely empty blocks use almost the same amount of energy, which inevitably solidifies the actual concern about Proof of Work energy use, but also highlights how its not a useful comment on any thread that coincidentally used a Proof of Work blockchain as a development platform.
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Dylan16807 1655 days ago
> yes, they deployed it on mainnet Ethereum, they could also deploy it on non Proof of Work platforms that use the Ethereum Virtual Machine, their wish was to display it on the NFT marketplace Opensea, which currently reads data from Ethereum mainnet and Polygon mainnet so they have two choices.

Does that mean you already knew it was on mainnet when you replied before?

It's entirely true that a different article about a different topic could have used "on Ethereum" to mean something different. But if you already know this is on mainnet Ethereum, and someone asks about mainnet power usage, then talking about other ways to interpret "on Ethereum" is a total non-sequitur.

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vmception 1655 days ago
No I looked closer for a transaction id after you mentioned that they deployed it

I think with broader education that “Ethereum” will mean Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) just like “Java” means Java Virtual Machine (JVM), and that it will have nothing to do with the reference implementation

No-coiners and non-Ether maximalists have never had nuanced enough arguments, mostly related to the amount of capital in the reference implementation, and fortunately they are getting diluted in favor of more nuanced education on the development environment side, but as always speculation drives innovation

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