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Coal was burnt to get to our current level of industrialisation. A lot of steel for wind turbines was smelted with coke. That doesn't mean we shouldn't try to f
by corty 6y ago
Coal was burnt to get to our current level of industrialisation. A lot of steel for wind turbines was smelted with coke. That doesn't mean we shouldn't try to find better ways and get rid of the old polluting methods.
And no, I'm not strawmanning to get rid of all cryptocurrencies. I'm naming a concrete problem with a part of them (the older, legacy, proof-of-work ones) that needs to be corrected by changing to better ones. That your investments might suffer is tragic of course. But the same goes for all the coal miners...
- shawnz 6y agoAgreed, I am eager to see the widespread adoption of proof-of-stake technologies to improve the efficiency of cryptocurrencies. The inefficiencies of proof-of-work aren't something to be happy about obviously, except insofar as they enabled cryptocurrency technology that wouldn't have been possible otherwise. And to be clear, I was referring to OP the author of the twitter thread.