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So don't use it. Done. Do people not get bored of telling others what to do? What next, "The Case Against Popcorn"?
by throwaway55421 5y ago
So don't use it. Done.
Do people not get bored of telling others what to do?
What next, "The Case Against Popcorn"?
- gostsamo 5y agoyes, I especially hate when someone shows up and starts telling me to invest in crypto.
- carrja99 5y agoThen you'll enjoy this quick video from the "slumdoge millionaire" in why you should "invest" in dogecoin. https://twitter.com/TikTokInvestors/status/1467225714164264962 https://twitter.com/TikTokInvestors/status/14672257141642649...
- sodality2 5y agoSo don't do it. Done. Do you argue for banning the sale of something when someone shills it to you? No, you tell them to shut up
- arcticbull 5y agoI do if it risks harming society. I certainly advocate against PFOAs. The answer to PFOAs isn't "just don't buy non-stick pans and tell anyone who encourages you to do so to 'shut up.'" It's a broad-based ban.
- MereInterest 5y agoIf you don't like pollution, then don't pollute. Do people not get bored of telling others not to dump waste in the water supply?
- throwaway55421 5y agoI agree, don't pollute. False equivalence. We can talk about carbon taxes and renewable energy if you'd like, but if we're going to go down the path of "any energy use is sin unless I approve of it", then I ask again; do you not bore of telling others what to do?
- matheusmoreira 5y agoCryptocurrencies don't represent even 1% of global energy consumption. Whatever pollution it's responsible for pales in comparison to the lifestyle of developed nations.
- denton-scratch 5y ago1% of global energy consumption is fkin huge, given that nothing of value is produced.
- matheusmoreira 5y agoI partially agree with you. It's true that bitcoin is not producing anything of value. It failed at everything. It's not a currency, it's not decentralized, it's not fungible, it's not untraceable and anonymous. It's nothing. That energy would be much better spent mining monero which does have all of those properties.
- denton-scratch 5y agoMonero is untraceable and anonymous only insofaras you have confidence in their tumbler/aggregation functionality. But at least it's meant to be anonymous and untraceable; bitcoin isn't. Monero isn't fungible in any sense that distinguishes it from BTC. I believe Monero is less profligate with the environment than BTC or ETH, but I can't cite.