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> People keep saying this. But are have you also thought about how wasteful is Facebook or Instagram or Youtube are? It’s like saying that actors are wasting f
by usaphp 9y ago
> People keep saying this. But are have you also thought about how wasteful is Facebook or Instagram or Youtube are?
It’s like saying that actors are wasting food and energy by doing what they do. Facebook YouTube and others are here for our entertainment, meanwhile bitcoin right now is mostly used by people with a final goal of selling it and making money. Most of the miners I know don’t ever use it to purchase something or send money to someone. That’s the problem in my opinion
- erentz 9y agoSee here you've gone straight into making a value judgement that you don't believe Bitcoin is useful, therefore we should permit Logan Paul videos but we shouldn't permit Bitcoin. But other people are happy to spend their money to buy electricity to burn it to mine Bitcoin. Just as you're okay with people spending money to watch ads and download videos. And without installing monitoring in everyone's home to make sure they don't decide to mine bitcoin on their laptops, or contravine whatever other new things we want to outlaw, then we can never shut it down so it's all moot. And if it's all moot then perpetuating this pointless "bitcoin burning electricity bad, youtube burning electricity okay" fad that is going on for some reason is a waste and a distraction from real problems and real solutions. The solution is to make sure whoever is burning electricity doing anything is paying the true cost of that electricity. Because there is literally nothing else you can do here if you really care about the environment.
- usaphp 9y agoFair enough, I misunderstood your original comment at first, now I got it. You make a valid point.
- FireBeyond 9y ago> here you've gone straight into making a value judgement Much like you did when you said: > to serve fake images and shitty news ?