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Great, now all that energy can be "wasted" rendering pixels with GPUs instead. This was always going to happen. Eth was never going to realistically compete wi

Great, now all that energy can be "wasted" rendering pixels with GPUs instead. This was always going to happen. Eth was never going to realistically compete with Bitcoin for energy. Now Bitcoin is the only PoW network remaining, as it should be. Looking forward to seeing Bitcoin play a pivotal role in renewable energy infrastructure build-out and capturing flared and vented methane to be one of the biggest carbon-negative industries on the planet. It arrived right when we needed it to tackle carbon emissions.

shmde 4y ago
> Great, now all that energy can be "wasted" rendering pixels with GPUs instead. Just like it was supposed to.
- Quindecillion 4y ago
  Point is the energy will still be spent and the carbon emitted if the grid is still primarily runs on fossil fuels. Energy use isn't the problem. Carbon emissions are. Green the grid, don't try to police people's energy use.
  - kaba0 4y ago
    Energy production is flexible to a degree and it very much depends on energy usage. Up to 0.5% of the total energy usage of the word just disappeared overnight, so it is safe to claim that a big percentage of that difference won’t even be produced, decreasing carbon emission.
  - survirtual 4y ago
    People have had plenty of time to understand bitcoin. If they are so seeped in ignorance still, just let time do the convincing. We have dirty shipping barges, endless pounds of meat, useless use of cars, tvs for entertainment, computers for the same, private jets, hell planes in general, skyscrapers for jobs that don’t matter, roads to nowhere, and so, so much more wasted energy — but a sovereign monetary system that is free from corruption in its creation and in transfer, and THIS is the great evil energy user? How utterly daft people are to not see the plainness of this attack on freedom. They are like sheep to the slaughter. Time is a brutal teacher. Freedom lost is regained through suffering.
  - omni 4y ago
    A mining GPU is running 24/7, the GPU of the heaviest-usage gamer will be maybe a quarter of that, with the vast majority of actual gaming use cases being far below that. Nowhere near equivalent.
bambax 4y ago
> Looking forward to seeing Bitcoin play a pivotal role in renewable energy infrastructure build-out and capturing flared and vented methane to be one of the biggest carbon-negative industries on the planet. Crypto-talk is so similar to satire as to be indistinguishable.
- Quindecillion 4y ago
  Let's talk about this in 10 years when it becomes plainly obvious that that is exactly what it's going to do. In the meantime you could actually do some research on it and discover that you might not have a clue what you're talking about. Or don't, it makes little difference to the outcome. https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2022-05-03/methane-is-a-big-climate-problem-that-bitcoin-can-help-solve?leadSource=uverify%20wall https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2022-05-03/methan... https://www.cnbc.com/2021/11/23/lancium-raises-150-million-for-renewable-run-bitcoin-mines-in-texas.html https://www.cnbc.com/2021/11/23/lancium-raises-150-million-f... https://medium.com/@magusperivallon/a-financial-hail-mary-for-the-climate-an-argument-for-bitcoin-adoption-1a695b668529 https://medium.com/@magusperivallon/a-financial-hail-mary-fo...
  - dmitriid 4y ago
    > https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2022-05-03/methan https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2022-05-03/methan... "Bitcoin is solving the issue of brning gas flares by buying that gas and burning it ... thereby reducing emissions" > https://www.cnbc.com/2021/11/23/lancium-raises-150-million-f https://www.cnbc.com/2021/11/23/lancium-raises-150-million-f... Lancium raises 150 million dollars to build windfarms 100% of whose output will be wasited on mining Bitcoin and not on, you know, actually producing electricity that people can use. > https://medium.com/@magusperivallon/a-financial-hail-mary-fo https://medium.com/@magusperivallon/a-financial-hail-mary-fo... "Bticoin will save the climate by replacing the financial stranglehold on our planet with a financial stranglehold that consumes ever increasing amounts of electiricty and gobbling up more and more resources (such as solar panels and windfarms that could be used elsewhere) to keep running". Also, "For a habitable future, we must stop financialization" says the article describing a system where profits are paramount. ---- Crypto-talk is so similar to satire as to be indistinguishable.

shmde 4y ago

> Great, now all that energy can be "wasted" rendering pixels with GPUs instead. Just like it was supposed to.

Quindecillion 4y ago
Point is the energy will still be spent and the carbon emitted if the grid is still primarily runs on fossil fuels. Energy use isn't the problem. Carbon emissions are. Green the grid, don't try to police people's energy use.
- kaba0 4y ago
  Energy production is flexible to a degree and it very much depends on energy usage. Up to 0.5% of the total energy usage of the word just disappeared overnight, so it is safe to claim that a big percentage of that difference won’t even be produced, decreasing carbon emission.
- survirtual 4y ago
  People have had plenty of time to understand bitcoin. If they are so seeped in ignorance still, just let time do the convincing. We have dirty shipping barges, endless pounds of meat, useless use of cars, tvs for entertainment, computers for the same, private jets, hell planes in general, skyscrapers for jobs that don’t matter, roads to nowhere, and so, so much more wasted energy — but a sovereign monetary system that is free from corruption in its creation and in transfer, and THIS is the great evil energy user? How utterly daft people are to not see the plainness of this attack on freedom. They are like sheep to the slaughter. Time is a brutal teacher. Freedom lost is regained through suffering.
- omni 4y ago
  A mining GPU is running 24/7, the GPU of the heaviest-usage gamer will be maybe a quarter of that, with the vast majority of actual gaming use cases being far below that. Nowhere near equivalent.

bambax 4y ago

> Looking forward to seeing Bitcoin play a pivotal role in renewable energy infrastructure build-out and capturing flared and vented methane to be one of the biggest carbon-negative industries on the planet. Crypto-talk is so similar to satire as to be indistinguishable.

Quindecillion 4y ago
Let's talk about this in 10 years when it becomes plainly obvious that that is exactly what it's going to do. In the meantime you could actually do some research on it and discover that you might not have a clue what you're talking about. Or don't, it makes little difference to the outcome. https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2022-05-03/methane-is-a-big-climate-problem-that-bitcoin-can-help-solve?leadSource=uverify%20wall https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2022-05-03/methan... https://www.cnbc.com/2021/11/23/lancium-raises-150-million-for-renewable-run-bitcoin-mines-in-texas.html https://www.cnbc.com/2021/11/23/lancium-raises-150-million-f... https://medium.com/@magusperivallon/a-financial-hail-mary-for-the-climate-an-argument-for-bitcoin-adoption-1a695b668529 https://medium.com/@magusperivallon/a-financial-hail-mary-fo...
- dmitriid 4y ago
  > https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2022-05-03/methan https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2022-05-03/methan... "Bitcoin is solving the issue of brning gas flares by buying that gas and burning it ... thereby reducing emissions" > https://www.cnbc.com/2021/11/23/lancium-raises-150-million-f https://www.cnbc.com/2021/11/23/lancium-raises-150-million-f... Lancium raises 150 million dollars to build windfarms 100% of whose output will be wasited on mining Bitcoin and not on, you know, actually producing electricity that people can use. > https://medium.com/@magusperivallon/a-financial-hail-mary-fo https://medium.com/@magusperivallon/a-financial-hail-mary-fo... "Bticoin will save the climate by replacing the financial stranglehold on our planet with a financial stranglehold that consumes ever increasing amounts of electiricty and gobbling up more and more resources (such as solar panels and windfarms that could be used elsewhere) to keep running". Also, "For a habitable future, we must stop financialization" says the article describing a system where profits are paramount. ---- Crypto-talk is so similar to satire as to be indistinguishable.