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"An astrobiologist says non-fungible tokens do not bode well for our species’s future. " This is a historical subhead.
by WriterGuy2021 5y ago
"An astrobiologist says non-fungible tokens do not bode well for our species’s future. " This is a historical subhead.
- ccamrobertson 5y agoAnd the article doesn't fail to live up to it -- "...because of the potential [of blockchain] to outpace any efforts to transition to zero-carbon energy production." I think that even the most craven cryptocurrency and NFT buyers have yet to envision such exponential scenarios that 'blockchain' consumes resources at a clip that subsumes other greenhouse-gas activities like, flying, driving, HVAC, etc. "There is of course another solution: We stop reinventing things like currency or certification until we have a proper plan [...] until humanity has figured out a way to generate all our energy cleanly, from solar, nuclear, and so on, would make more sense." "There is of course another solution: We cease all human behaviors [...]".