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Would you say the same if you could mine bitcoin by buying up as much medicine as you could, and burning it? Because if you think the above behavior isn't "ear
by knorker 5y ago
Would you say the same if you could mine bitcoin by buying up as much medicine as you could, and burning it?
Because if you think the above behavior isn't "earning income" clearly better than "play video games", then your argument falls completely flat.
- arthurcolle 5y agothis is a total false equivalence. you’re really comparing computing hashes to buying medicine and destroying it?
- belltaco 5y ago>Air pollution accounts for 1 in 8 deaths worldwide - approximately 7 million deaths in 2012, according to new data from the World Health Organization (WHO). The findings, released in late March, doubled previous estimates from just a few years ago in 2008. WHO now characterizes air pollution as “the world’s largest single environmental health risk.” https://www.niehs.nih.gov/research/programs/geh/geh_newsletter/2014/4/articles/air_pollution_accounts_for_1_in_8_deaths_worldwide_according_to_new_who_estimates.cfm https://www.niehs.nih.gov/research/programs/geh/geh_newslett...
- arthurcolle 5y agoThis is beyond a stretch. Fascinating that this is how people are rationalizing being dismissive of cryptos.
- TheRealSteel 5y agoIt's actually worse, climate change is going to kill all of us, medicine unavailability will only kill some of us.
- knorker 5y agoI'm comparing taking a useful resource and deliberately destroying it in order to "prove work". It's a very accurate comparison.