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Gaming gives people enjoyment. They are not consuming other energy sources and to a certain degree, i think this is okay. It also combines and supports advanta

by Sonnen 6y ago

Gaming gives people enjoyment. They are not consuming other energy sources and to a certain degree, i think this is okay. It also combines and supports advantages in science by making this more affordable for the rest. You can still critizie it and there have been huge energy savings for idle GPUs which was not the case 10? years ago. Nonetheless, one thing doesn't make the other thing better or worse. Doing bitcoin is supporting a system which requires mining to make transactions. It also doesn't free me but potentially people who benefit from this directly. Like money washing, moving their millions from left to right or other things. And while doing that, taking my graphicscard, i wanted to play with, to sit somehwere, running 24/7 for what? What real problem solves bitcoin for me and most other people on the world?

Tenoke 6y ago
>They are not consuming other energy sources and to a certain degree, i think this is okay. Both are using energy, I don't know what the 'other' even r refers to. >It also combines and supports advantages in science by making this more affordable for the rest. .. Both of those apply for crypto. Better GPUs are developed because of usage, gaming usage doesn't necessarily give you more than crypto usage and cryptocurrencies are putting a lot of money into cryptography.
- Sonnen 6y ago
  I might be a weirdo but playing RDD2 for 85 hours was very entertaining and while i played RDD2, i did not travel or do something else resourceintenvise. I have not had this amount of return on investment when doing something with bitcoin. It was more like 'huh? how much is the transaction fee now?', ah why is this market seized? Oh i found a little bit of bitcoin here, i totally forgot. And while i play 85h over a span of 4 weeks or so, your mining rig already consumed 590h more energy than i did. I said 'to a certain degree, i think this is okay' and i also think that for bitcoin, this is not the case.
qqii 6y ago
Trustless prediction markets and gambling. Trustless exchanges and lending (including tokens pegged to real world assets like the dollar or stocks). NFTs as digital proof of ownership.

by Sonnen 6y ago

Tenoke 6y ago

>They are not consuming other energy sources and to a certain degree, i think this is okay. Both are using energy, I don't know what the 'other' even r refers to. >It also combines and supports advantages in science by making this more affordable for the rest. .. Both of those apply for crypto. Better GPUs are developed because of usage, gaming usage doesn't necessarily give you more than crypto usage and cryptocurrencies are putting a lot of money into cryptography.

Sonnen 6y ago
I might be a weirdo but playing RDD2 for 85 hours was very entertaining and while i played RDD2, i did not travel or do something else resourceintenvise. I have not had this amount of return on investment when doing something with bitcoin. It was more like 'huh? how much is the transaction fee now?', ah why is this market seized? Oh i found a little bit of bitcoin here, i totally forgot. And while i play 85h over a span of 4 weeks or so, your mining rig already consumed 590h more energy than i did. I said 'to a certain degree, i think this is okay' and i also think that for bitcoin, this is not the case.

qqii 6y ago

Trustless prediction markets and gambling. Trustless exchanges and lending (including tokens pegged to real world assets like the dollar or stocks). NFTs as digital proof of ownership.