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by SCLeo 1599 days ago
I am willing to bet in 5 years time, the largest crypto currency will still be BTC and it will still be POW.
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Maybe, maybe not. If you're worried about the climate change impact, you can start now by charging additional taxes on all energy consumption.

Why should cryptocurrency be singled out? Just because some people dislike it? We haven't done much about climate change and the big pollutants in decades, but as soon as cryptocurrencies come up, it's suddenly treated as an existential threat to human kind - I don't buy it.

> Maybe, maybe not.

If we are talking about climate change, time is quickly running out. So talking about wishful thinking while reality is actually other way around does not seems to be helpful.

Can you quantify the impact on climate change that PoW is going to have if we don't act against it immediately?