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The fact that some people don't care about efficiency doesn't mean we shouldn't measure it. For example, a lot of people buy cars that are fuel-inefficient. D
by lottin 5y ago
The fact that some people don't care about efficiency doesn't mean we shouldn't measure it. For example, a lot of people buy cars that are fuel-inefficient. Does that mean we should stop measuring car efficiency? No, that's a ridiculous argument. If you don't care about efficiency because you care more about other stuff, at least you should be aware of the trade-offs, and also have the intellectual honesty to admit that you don't care about efficiency, instead of pretending that efficiency is not important.
- matheusmoreira 5y agoI didn't say you shouldn't measure it. I said people are buying other things for their money. Simply measuring transactions/energy ignores all that. Monero provides decentralized trustless private untraceable transactions, Ethereum provides decentralized trustless transactions that execute smart contracts. The energy consumption is merely the cost of all those features.
- lottin 5y ago> The energy consumption is merely the cost of all those features. This is a big assumption, and almost certainly untrue.
- matheusmoreira 5y agoWhy?
- lottin 5y agoBecause we don't know that any of these systems incurs the least possible cost in processing transactions with these particular features.