[rglullis]

anyone who equates "crypto" with "Proof of Work" shows automatically their ignorance or dishonesty when arguing.

Ethereum will switch to PoS next month, and there will be hundreds of thousands of nodes around the world, in aggregate they will run on a fraction of the energy consumed by the millions of video game consoles while idling.

By all means, complain about Proof of Work all you want but get off the high horse. Those "bashing crypto" and talk about "the waste it creates" are usually so covered in privilege they can't even be bothered to actually go to put the numbers in perspective.

[Helikentio]

Quite arrogant from you to assume I don't know what you said.

I'm aware of it.

Eth hasn't switched yet, the GPU problem was real and the terrawatts 'crypto' consumes is also real.

Of course I simply slightly when I don't 'bother' to name not 10 or 50 different pow blockchains but why not?

The general problem exists. It hurts us all much more than it helps and crypto threads are the correct place to comment on this issue.

And yes the current drought might not be created by crypto alone but that doesn't make it any better.

[rglullis]

> I'm aware of it.

Then it is not ignorance, which leaves you the alternative: dishonesty.

What really pisses me off is the perma-comment of "we don't need crypto", "there are no use cases", "it is only for scams", etc. Go ask people in Argentina how they are managing to keep some sense of financial normalcy, lots of them will tell you "crypto".

[Helikentio]

Oh yes let's ask the handful texhsavy people from Argentina.

Let's ignore how most people in El Salvador are not able to use their crypto because they don't understand it. Let's ignore that most of them not even understand lightning.

Let's ignore that the evil actors can miss use crypto as well which weakens sanctions.

Completely ignore all other obvious issues with crypto which have been brought up by me and others without any answer to them as long as there is the one person in <add country> who apparently is able to exchange their money with crypto.

Let's also ignore that plenty of people have been exchanging their unsta Le currency with other money before crypto like us or euro.

Who ever was able to exchange their money to crypto would have been able to do so without crypto...

Let's also ignore that 99,9999 % of people will be hurt by all the co2 before they have ever any benefit of crypto.

And as my final argument: crypto means that everyone who started to do it early gets more value in out of crypto as everyone after them. No one in their sane mind will ever switch their money over into crypto and loosing out by making the earlier adopters even richer.

Cryptobros go f yourself...

[rglullis]

El Salvador. CO2. These are all talking points against Bitcoin, not crypto.

You keep hitting the wrong drum. Again, get off the high horse. Come back when you understand that I am on your side in regards to Bitcoin, even though your arguments are completely misguided.