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by Liquid_Fire 1532 days ago
Checking this may be impractical. But for crypto donations, you don't need to check - you _know_ that it was generated in an environmentally-unfriendly way (at least for the currencies currently accepted).
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Since cross chain activity is made available that's not true, I could do 100% of my money on avalanche or solana and bridge some only to donate
Aren't you just moving the work to someone else, who had to mine a Bitcoin block for your donation transaction to go through?
eth is moving to proof of stake imminently
If I was waiting on a bus that was supposed to arrive “imminently” for this long I’d be well pissed off.

https://www.coindesk.com/tech/2020/05/11/vitalik-buterin-say...

I got sick of hearing this claim years ago. At this point, it's tantamount to gaslighting.