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> Again, short-term thinking. As a purely digital currency, cryptocurrency gets greener every year as the grid gets greener. I'm happy to pause all cryptocurre
by camgunz 6y ago
> Again, short-term thinking. As a purely digital currency, cryptocurrency gets greener every year as the grid gets greener.
I'm happy to pause all cryptocurrency mining and transactions until humanity is carbon free. I doubt long BTCs will be though.
- fastball 6y agoAh yes, the luddite approach, an age-old classic.
- camgunz 6y agoYou can dismiss it as such, but can you really deny that: - Cryptocurrency uses tons of electricity - Climate change is real and super bad I would (obviously) rather have a livable Earth than cryptocurrency, and I don't think that's weird.
- fastball 6y ago- Yes, but a significant portion of that is coming from renewables / excess generation. Additionally, work is constantly being done to improve the energy efficiency of crypto. - Climate change is real, but I think it would need to be much worse than it is in order to justify halting human progress. In fact, continued human progress is our best bet for halting climate change. - False dichotomy.
- shuringai 6y agoLas Vegas also has a shitton of electric waste, how about we start suddenly going green with that? How is it that people only care about green earth when the target is the smallest slice of the pie?
- camgunz 6y agoOh I care about that too, and I also care about the draining of aquifers in the US Southwest, etc. etc. But this is a cryptocurrency thread so, here we are.
- icebraining 6y agoBitcoin is not that small a slice nowadays, though. Estimates put it higher than Las Vegas.