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by lucianbr 399 days ago
> ...why? why would technology that specifically requires a lot of energy help "fight climate change"?

There's no good reason it would. Nevertheless, proponents of both AI and crypto have claimed multiple times it would. So I think it is quite fair to bring it up.

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alfiedotwtf 399 days ago
You do realise most cryptocurrencies aren’t PoW, so your point is living in the past, man!
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proxynoproxy 399 days ago
Only the one big pow coin matters tho. Turns out, PoS coins are worthless!

I also dislike energy frugality arguments. They come from a Luddite place. A civilization is defined by its energy usage. Let’s be advanced civilization.

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alfiedotwtf 398 days ago
what do you mean worthless? I'd say the opposite - Bitcoin does nothing... it just sits there looking pretty, this vs all newer blockchains that can actually run programs... we even have smart contracts running MIPS emulators for production use!

... get Bitcoin to do 3% of what ANY PoS blockchain could do.

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