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The environment? Then run a lightning node, or use Cardano, problem solved. Why are we trowing the baby out with the bathwater?

• lxgr 5y ago
  Can Lightning exist without the Bitcoin blockchain?
  • teekert 5y ago
    When will technical solutions reduce blockchain energy usage enough for the anti-blockhain people to find it acceptable?
    • lxgr 5y ago
      I don‘t think "the anti-blockchain people" is as homogenous a front as you might imagine it. Some object on the grounds of PoW mining and its incentive structure; others due to their tendencies to disproportionately accumulate wealth to early adopters; yet others due to widespread predatory and/or misleading marketing. I‘m probably forgetting several other reasons here. Personally, anything based on proof-of-scarce-resource is pretty much a no-go (unless it would suddenly provide benefits more than outweighing the damage it does), but definitely not only that.
      • teekert 5y ago
        What is the alternative to proof-of-scare-resource? I only trust money or gold because you cant pick it from the trees with almost 0 effort.