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If it's environmental impact justifies making it illegal what else could potentially be on the chopping block with the same logic? Videogames also run GPU hard
by whywhywhywhy 6y ago
If it's environmental impact justifies making it illegal what else could potentially be on the chopping block with the same logic?
Videogames also run GPU hardware full pelt, so does creating the majority of what you see on the screen for a Marvel movie. How much of the worlds resources are burned daily encoding video for social media.
- PragmaticPulp 6y agoBitcoin is unique in that the system itself is designed to inefficiently burn energy doing deliberately useless proof of work. We can “whatabout” other energy consumers all day, but the bottom line is that everything else is incentivized to use a little energy as possible. Even your GPU example would only benefit from less energy consumption (less heat, faster clock speeds) Meanwhile, Bitcoin consumes more and more energy all of the time, without ever producing any more transactions.