And somehow proof of stake always remains fully outside of the discussion: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proof_of_stake https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proof_of_s

And somehow proof of stake always remains fully outside of the discussion: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proof_of_stake https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proof_of_stake tl;dr More forward-looking coins, like Ethereum, will get rid of the energy intensive mining via a completely different consensus mechanism.