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Algorand is carbon-negative. The inventor is a Turing-award winning MIT professor.
by dqpb 5y ago
Algorand is carbon-negative. The inventor is a Turing-award winning MIT professor.
- NationalPark 5y agoVia carbon offsets, so they emit all the co2 up front and then hope the forests their partners plant are both real and will be properly managed for the next few decades.
- dqpb 5y agoThey emit very little co2 up front. So little that they trivially reach carbon-negative with a small amount of carbon offsets.
- wizzwizz4 5y agoVery little compared to the entire planet, sure. But what's the actual amount?
- dqpb 5y agoSustainable Blockchain: Estimating the Carbon Footprint of Algorand’s Pure Proof-of-Stake https://www.algorand.com/resources/blog/sustainable-blockchain-calculating-the-carbon-footprint https://www.algorand.com/resources/blog/sustainable-blockcha...
- endisneigh 5y agoNope. Still worse than status quo + planting trees via partners, which is exactly what alogrand does...
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- dqpb 5y agoYou can install an algorand server on a desktop and measure it yourself. Try doing that with Visa, or Venmo, or [choose your own black box].