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So is streaming video.
by daniellarusso 6y ago
So is streaming video.
- ForHackernews 6y agoDoes youtube use 100x as much energy if 2x more people watch videos? People really need to look into how bitcoin's Red Queen's Race works.
- daniellarusso 6y agoAre you asking me to compare degrees of waste?
- ForHackernews 6y agoYes. I'm asking you to do a little bit of reading and understand that there's a difference between a system that might be somewhat inefficient/wasteful/could be optimised and a system that is BY DESIGN deliberately inefficient, will keep getting MORE inefficient, and (again, by design) can NEVER be made more efficient. The entire basis of bitcoin is that each miner has to waste more and more energy because if you ever take your foot off the gas pedal, you run the risk of some other mining syndicate executing a 51% attack against you. No other computer system I'm aware of is designed to keep getting less efficient.
- imtringued 6y agoI derive tremendous value from the tremendous energy waste.