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You can't also opt out of the Swift/Visa/MasterCard climate impact, or the ATM network, or the internet! how many millions of servers are running, day and night
by guilhas 5y ago
You can't also opt out of the Swift/Visa/MasterCard climate impact, or the ATM network, or the internet! how many millions of servers are running, day and night, to host millions of terabytes of content where only a fraction ends up being accessed ...and it's a cat video
What you can do is use and support the climate friendlier alternatives. There are crypto currencies created with that in mimd
- paulgb 5y agoIt's true, and I'm allowed to (and do) care about the emissions of those, too. I'm objecting to the idea that I shouldn't be allowed to care (“don't use it duh”) as a non-user. I am encouraged to see the transition to PoS and would love to see PoS overtake PoW, just from a bystander-concerned-about-the-environment perspective.
- guilhas 5y agoI do agree that PoW in a big scale is stupid. Those resources could be used to host cloud services, compute big important problems, etc... PoW by now is basically PoS with extra steps But, even for the environment, I can't take people thinking it is a good idea govs using PoW, or standard exchange problems, to ban All crypto-currencies. While creating their own fake digital coin PoS is also not ideal since it keeps promoting the same rules has the old system. Who has more money will keep having more independent if their producing something useful So I think we still need something new, and someone smart to come up with it Something that works for big groups, like a combination of localized PoW plus global PoS with PoT. Proof of trust, like most systems work