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Chia (XCH) coin would be interesting to see on that list seeing it basis was being an eco friendly crypto
by jv0010 5y ago
Chia (XCH) coin would be interesting to see on that list seeing it basis was being an eco friendly crypto
- Milkman128 5y agoIf you can account for the resources of each hard drive it kills
- agravier 5y agoIndeed, we should also account for such material resources allocated or wasted by all proof-of-some-resource crypto. Like the number of GPUS hoarded up by a non-ASIC PoW coin, or even the manufacturing of specialized miners.
- Taek 5y agoThere's probably enough data out already on how long hard drives last while mining Chia to make a reasonable estimate. It kills hard drives fast enough that a large percentage of hard drives which were mining at genesis are now dead.
- c1sc0 5y agoThere actually is an estimate of this floating in the chia Keybase channel. I remember it being very low, but there are many variables. Even at 100x the estimate it came down to less than 10 million USD in CO2 offsets.