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by ASpaceCowboi 1431 days ago
Article: "Yes, you read that right. Square Enix is choosing to make its NFTs — a technology known to consume exorbitant amounts of energy contributing to wildly increased emissions and accelerating already out-of-control climate change on a planet that is either on fire, drowned, or melting — out of characters it created who were dedicated to stopping companies from doing exactly what an NFT facilitates."

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Enjin protocol: "a Proof of Authority blockchain that runs on five nodes that consume 30,000,000 watts per year.

This will allow Enjin Ecosystem creators to mint NFTs on a network that consumes ~0.000002 of the electricity of the Ethereum blockchain."

Link: https://enjin.io/blog/carbon-neutral-nfts-by-2030

The authors should've done a little bit of background check on how different Enjin actually is rather than just assuming everything.