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Climate change may be the problem that defines our generation. In that light, and given the ludicrous power estimates that blockchains use, are we not morally
by 2muchcoffeeman 5y ago
Climate change may be the problem that defines our generation.
In that light, and given the ludicrous power estimates that blockchains use, are we not morally obligated to kill all the blockchain projects if these estimates are in the right ballpark?
- lostmsu 5y agoOnly if you believe climate change defines this generation.
- Tenoke 5y agoAt most we might be obliged to kill the worst (and a lot of other non-crypto things) but killing all makes no sense when there's many with fairly neglible impact.
- woodruffw 5y agoNature abhors a vacuum: if you kill the most popular PoW scheme, the little ones will dutifully step up and use just as much power. I don’t think there’s any world we can live in where PoW schemes will have “negligible impact,” which only heartens the justification for banning all of them, now.